[LWJGL] Proper Way to Handle GUI Input.

Newbie & Debugging Questions
#1

I’ve been working on a basic all-in-one 2D game library using LWJGL.

The UI that I created works fine just sometimes events are lost, or something.

I am currently polling the input for the UI and if a UI object returns true it breaks the loop through in my listener.

Is polling the best way to do this?
How else can I do this?

Lets make this a discussion!

#2

If events are lost in the UI ‘sometimes’, the UI is not working properly.

#3

So polling is the proper way?

#4

Polling is prone to lose events. Use the event based API.

#5

Can you link or show me a quick example? The only 2 ways that I know of handling events is every update to loop through all the handlers in my UI in zorder and break the loop on a hit. Or using something like Keyboard.isKeyDown(). But how would I use the latter for, say a textbox without having to write out all possible keys?

#6

LWJGL has event methods built in Keyboard class.

#7

Nevermind I had it backwards. I’ve been doing event-driven. But I loop through all events once an update. I’m doing something like this


while(Keyboard.next()) {
    forward to listeners
}