Setting a default Skin

[amitkot]

Using 1.9.6-b6, I've been trying to set a default skin for my game, and I'm currently unclear as to what is the way to do it.

I followed the documentation and created a simple skin:

init {
  skin {
     textButton {
       font = BitmapFont()
       fontColor = Color.WHITE
  }
}

But then when I create a TextButton:

table {
  textButton("Tutorial")
}

I get an error that there is no default skin:

Exception in thread "LWJGL Application" com.badlogic.gdx.utils.GdxRuntimeException: No com.badlogic.gdx.scenes.scene2d.ui.TextButton$TextButtonStyle registered with name: default

When saving the skin as a variable and passing it to the button, it works fine.

[czyzby]

See the Scene2D documentation. It's the first code snippet in the examples section. You have to set the Scene2DSkin.defaultSkin first in order to use methods without passing your skin explicitly.

init {
  Scene2DSkin.defaultSkin = skin {
    textButton {
      font = BitmapFont()
      fontColor = Color.WHITE
    }
  }
}

[amitkot]

I think I got the wrong impressing while reading the Style docs that calling skin {} sets the default one, but I understand it better now.

Thanks!

[czyzby]

skin method is from a separate module and it's basically a Skin factory method, so you can initiate multiple instances in your application.

[amitkot]

Thanks!
I'm writing my first game using libGDX so there is quite a lot to learn.
So far KTX has been very helpful to me to thanks for all the hard work!

BTW, is there a good open source reference project you would suggest I study at to get a good idea of the the best practices?

[czyzby]

Best practices of LibGDX in general or just KTX? There are a few open-sourced KTX projects listed on the official website, but most of them are quickly hacked game jam projects that just work (TM). I suggest looking into existing Java LibGDX tutorials and gradually converting your code to Kotlin.