Aligning CCMenu to a grid

Question

Does anybody know the best practice approach to getting an array of CCMenuItems to align to a grid? This is a cocos2d question

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Answer 1

Here is my solution, i hope it helps.

First define this struct somewhere:

typedef struct
{
 int cols;
}RowInfo;

Then:

-(void)layoutMenu:(CCMenu *)menu rowInfo:(RowInfo[])inf rows:(int)rows padding:(CGPoint)padding     
{
CCMenuItem *dummy = (CCMenuItem *)[menu.children objectAtIndex:0];
int itemIndex = 0;

float w = dummy.contentSize.width;
float h = dummy.contentSize.height;

CGSize screenSize = [[CCDirector sharedDirector]winSize];
CCArray *items = [menu children];

float startX;

for (int i = rows - 1; i >=0; i--)
{
    int colsNow = info[i].cols;

    startX = (screenSize.width - (colsNow * w + padding.x * (colsNow - 1)))/2;
    float y = i * (padding.y + h);

    for (int j = 0; j < colsNow; j++)
    {
        CCMenuItem *item = (CCMenuItem *)[items objectAtIndex:itemIndex];
        item.anchorPoint = ccp(0,0);
        item.position = ccp(startX, y);
        startX += padding.x + w;
        itemIndex++;
    }
}
}

The call goes like this(a custom keyboard):

//create custom keyboard
NSArray *captions = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:
@"Q", @"W", @"E", @"R", @"T", @"Y", @"U", @"I", @"O", @"P",
   @"A", @"S", @"D", @"F", @"G",@"H", @"J", @"K", @"L",
     @"Z", @"X", @"C", @"V", @"B", @"N", @"M", nil];

CCMenu *menu = [CCMenu menuWithItems:nil];

[self addChild:menu];

for (NSString *caption in captions)
{
    CCLabelTTF *label = [CCLabelTTF labelWithString:caption fontName:@"Courier" fontSize:25];
    CCMenuItemLabel *item = [CCMenuItemLabel itemWithLabel:label target:self selector:@selector(callDelegate:)];
    [menu addChild:item];
}

RowInfo info[3] = {{7}, {9}, {10}}; //inverse order

[self layoutMenu:menu withRowInfo:info rows:3 padding:ccp(15, 15)];