App help

miketaylor9

Hello all, I am in the process of creating an app that would help my pro wrestling family out getting ready for our monthly events.

the things i am having issues with is 2 things.

I have 2 pages. one is add/remove superstars, and the other is create an event.

first thing i would like to do is make it so the user can add and remove superstar info. say like i want to add john doe. i would add a picture of him then have a spot to write down their weights and hometown. how would i go about making these entrys possible.

then the 2nd one is the create an event. i want to make it so i can add a match. click on what type of match from a drop menu and then add superstars which would in turn pull info from the superstar page.

if anyone can explain to me on what im missing let me know thanks.

tatiang

It's a little hard to know where to start with an explanation. What you've described is a fair amount of work so there's not a simple "choose this behavior" answer that fits.

To input information, you can use the Keyboard Input behavior or a custom keyboard (you'll need to make one or purchase one).

To add data to a GameSalad project file/app, use tables. If you're not familiar with them, check out the many tutorials available (Google _gamesalad tables). If you are, what specific questions do you have?

gyroscope

Hi @miketaylor9 To add what @tatiang wrote, unfortunately there's no way of a user bringing in a photo/picture

miketaylor9

what is the best way to make a drop down menu that would pull info from another page in the app?

tatiang

It's a lot of work. I made a demo at one point and it took hours to construct and troubleshoot. And that was after I'd been using GS for a year or more. It all depends how much experience you have with GameSalad. When you say "the best way," again, I don't really know how to advise you. Can you ask a specific question about the process? Have you started building one and gotten stuck? If not, it may be that you need to learn more about GS before you dive in to something that complicated. The best way would be to spawn actors as needed and have them appear/disappear when the menu length warrants it.

In terms of pulling information from another page, you can access game attributes or table data globally so it doesn't matter what "page" (aka scene) you're viewing.