[SOLVED]How wallpaper scroll along with homescreen?

[Kangee]

I check my code and find no big mistakes. (i missed to explain that "mCamara" is a private field in the example and "Renderer" is an import from org.anddev.andengine.opengl.view.RenderSurfaceView.Renderer)

So It should work for you.

But maybe we do not talk about the same topic...

I mean this:



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The dolphin swims from one screen to the next screen.

[PowerApps]

Does the camera have to be bigger then the actually screen?

[Kangee]

I upload the Eclipse-Project as Zip-File. I think this is the answer of all questions

[PowerApps]

Thanks, it's really a big help.

[knaikos]

Hi!

I've been trying to make a Live Wallpaper with offset using andengine and finally I succeed (I must thank Kangee for the big help).

But now, I'm trying to add an extra funcionality: I have a moving sprite on the screen and I want to trigger an event when the sprite is touched.

My first thought was to use the OnTap Method (from the BaseLiveWallpaperService class):

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2. protected void onTap(final int pX, final int pY)
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5. }
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Although it seems to be the easiest way, it doesn't work because the method is never called.
Then I tried to solve it using the TouchDragExample (included in the andengine example) :

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2. final Sprite face = new Sprite(centerX, centerY, this.mFaceTextureRegion) {
3. @Override
4. public boolean onAreaTouched(final TouchEvent pSceneTouchEvent, final float pTouchAreaLocalX, final float pTouchAreaLocalY) {
5. this.setPosition(pSceneTouchEvent.getX() - this.getWidth() / 2, pSceneTouchEvent.getY() - this.getHeight() / 2);
6. return true;
7. }
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and then:

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1. scene.registerTouchArea(face);
2. scene.setTouchAreaBindingEnabled(true);
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but it won't work neither (onAreaTouched is never called).

Is it possible that the implementation of onOffsetsChanged provided by Kangee interferes somehow with the other methods ?? I mean, maybe when pOffsetsChangedListener has been treated all the other listeners are discarded ?
I'm quite new to Android and Java, so please don't be very rude if I'm saying a nonsense .


Anyone has been able to manage offset and touch events in a Live Wallpaper made with andengine ?

Thanx!

[hnim]

@Kangee: i followed your tutorial, but i cant make my background scroll . This is how i set my bg:
scene.setBackground(new SpriteBackground(new Sprite(0, 0, mBackgroundTextureRegion)));
please help me. Thanks alot.

[yeah00]

Hi!
But now, I'm trying to add an extra funcionality: I have a moving sprite on the screen and I want to trigger an event when the sprite is touched.

My first thought was to use the OnTap Method (from the BaseLiveWallpaperService class):

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1.  
2. protected void onTap(final int pX, final int pY)
3. {
4.  
5. }
6.  

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Although it seems to be the easiest way, it doesn't work because the method is never called.
Then I tried to solve it using the TouchDragExample (included in the andengine example) :

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1.  
2. final Sprite face = new Sprite(centerX, centerY, this.mFaceTextureRegion) {
3. @Override
4. public boolean onAreaTouched(final TouchEvent pSceneTouchEvent, final float pTouchAreaLocalX, final float pTouchAreaLocalY) {
5. this.setPosition(pSceneTouchEvent.getX() - this.getWidth() / 2, pSceneTouchEvent.getY() - this.getHeight() / 2);
6. return true;
7. }
8.  

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and then:

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1. scene.registerTouchArea(face);
2. scene.setTouchAreaBindingEnabled(true);
3.  

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but it won't work neither (onAreaTouched is never called).

Is it possible that the implementation of onOffsetsChanged provided by Kangee interferes somehow with the other methods ?? I mean, maybe when pOffsetsChangedListener has been treated all the other listeners are discarded ?
I'm quite new to Android and Java, so please don't be very rude if I'm saying a nonsense .


Anyone has been able to manage offset and touch events in a Live Wallpaper made with andengine ?

Thanx!

I have the same problem, IonAreaTouched is never called. One solution is to have all the sprites in an arraylist and then iterate through the list in the onTap method and check if the tap.x and tap.y equals the cordinates of the sprite. I have not tried it, but i have done this in an android app before(without andengine).

But really, doesnt the onAreaTouch work in live wallpaper?

[tencent]

I upload the Eclipse-Project as Zip-File. I think this is the answer of all questions

You are awesome for posting that file. One small change though as I believe your math is incorrect and this may help others. My LWP has objects spawn just outside the left and right sides of the screen then 'fly' across the screen and back off the the side opposite of their entry. So from left to right and right to left. My issue is that with your math currently when I replace your static sizes with proper screen sizes, I see the sprites spawning on the screen because the camera will either pan too far left or too far right. Now this may not be an issue for those of you that pick static camera dimensions regardless of device however I set my camera dimensions based on screen resolution from the Display class.

So I came up with this solution which is actually super straight forward.

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1. //cameraWidthHalf is just a pre calculated variable of camera.getWidth() * 0.5
2. //cameraCenterY is just another optimization I put in that pre fetched the camera y center
3. camera.setCenter(-xPixelOffset + cameraWidthHalf, cameraCenterY);
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I believe, and I have only tested on my vibrant and g1 with varying numbers of desktop screens. That this properly pans the camera.

Thank you again for posting your code!

[yeah00]

If anyone searching for the onTouch problem:

From another thread:
Nevermind I'm an idiot, I used the Live Wallpaper template, which overrides onTap, this prevented the touch events from flowing through, removed that override and all is good.


And thanks for the code!

[squeeb]

i have downloaded the file and have been trying to get a background image to scroll.... how do you add a background image. sorry i am very new and trying to learn.

any help is appreciated