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On this page, you find tutorials about various topics concerning MT4j and its usage.
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Tutorial: Hello World
This tutorial shows how to create a simple MT4j application by explaining the Hello World example step by step, illustrating the basic structure and components of a MT4j application.
Components in MT4j
This tutorial explains the basic structure of MT4j components and how to use and modify them. Reading is strongly recommended for beginners.
- Introduction
- Creating components and creating a hierarchy
- Destroying components
- Making components interactable
- Recieving and handling input
- Drawing and displaying components
- Updating components
Component transformations and coordinate spaces explained
This Tutorial explains the coordinate spaces used in MT4j and how components and points can be transformed.
- Introduction
- Coordinate spaces
- Transforming components
- Moving components
- Rotating components
- Scaling components
- Transforming points
Geometric shapes in MT4j
This tutorial shows the geometric shapes provided by MT4j and the functionality they offer. Furthermore we learn how to change a shape's geometry and appearance.
- Introduction - MT4j shapes and their functionality
- Creating and destroying shapes
- Changing a shape's geometry
- Setting and changing a shape's appearance
- Textures
- Positioning shapes
- Size of shapes
- Bounding Shapes
Text and Fonts
This article discusses the font and text rendering systems of MT4j. It shows how to load fonts and use them in text components.
Setting up multi-touch gesture functionality on components
In this tutorial we learn the steps necessary to make MT4j components react to multitouch gestures. It also shows how to write your own gesture listener to create custom gesture behaviour.
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