How To Create a HUD Layer with Cocos2D

[rwenderlich]

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[kyle]

hey ray... i'm getting an error on the download link. great post. i was just working on this for the AR book... HUD = cool

[Bobj-c]

Hi Ray,

Nice tutor 10q )

[rwenderlich]

Whoops sorry about that, download link fixed!

[CreoNic]

Hi,

I cant change the project to run on the simulator.
There is only one option to select and that is iOS device.

Im using Xcode 4

Anyone that know how to fix this?

[Gawron]

Hi,

I had the same - just change from iOS 5 to iOS4.3 in your project settings.

Piotr

[CreoNic]

That did the trick!

[aeberbach]

Rule of Xcode - make your "base SDK" setting "Latest iOS" and never touch it again. Choose your "iOS Deployment Target" setting more carefully, set it to the oldest iOS version you want to be able to run your app. If you make it 5 and your users all have 4, nobody gets to run anything. If you set it to 3 but you have used 4.0 APIs, an iOS 3 user can install your app and crash.

[CreoNic]

Hello,

Do anyone know how to go about to implement sneaky input joystick in a hud layer?
Well that is a simple question but what I want is not that simple.

I want to implement the following:
1.Hud layer with joystick and score information.
2.A game layer where my hero object is placed.
3.A shared game object that contains score and other shared information. (Read by the hud layer and other objects.)
4.A hero object that is placed on the game layer but gets its movements from the hud joystick.
5.The hero object is responsible for clamping the movements to the screen boundary.

I don't want to implement a lot of sneaky joystick code in my hero class.
I want all or as much as possible of sneaky joystick to be implemented in the hud layer.
The clamping should NOT be in the hud layer as I might use another type of hero that I don not want to clamp in the future.

I guess I need to use delegates in some way to do this but I don't know how.

I don't expect a full example just some idea and general direction on how to go about to do this.
Should I use delegates?
What should I delegate where?

Regards
CreoNic

[Etteba]

Hello Ray,
Suppose I want to add and implement a Pause button to the game where is the best place to put it? ...
would it be in the Action layer or the HUD layer or the Scene itself?