Cookbook

Here we show “recipes” for doing a bunch of common things with PlayN code. The cookbook is divided into sections, to keep the pages from growing so large that they crash your browser. One should hopefully be able to guess which section is likely to contain the recipe they seek and can then scan the recipes or use their browser’s search functionality to dig deeper.

• Graphics - using Image, Canvas, Texture, Surface, etc.
• Scene graph - Layer-related things
• Sound - Sound and fury
• Input - Mouse, Touch, Pointer and Keyboard
• Net - networking for fun and profit
• Assets - assets, media, and other bits
• Build - Maven, IDEs, and other modern torture devices

Each recipe contains just the code snippet that accomplishes the goal in question. An easy way to play with the snippets is to check out the Hello sample game and then paste the snippets into HelloGame.java. Follow the instructions for building and running the demos to get yourself set up with a development environment such that you can run the Hello demo.

If you don’t find what you’re looking for, ask on our mailing list and someone can likely help, and hopefully create a new cookbook recipe in the process.