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Hi,

I downloaded TWL and in the examples folder it has a bunch of xml themes, e.g. simple.xml, login.xml, gameuidemo.xml etc.

For now, my game has a login state and a gameplay state (both of type BasicTWLGameState). I wanted the rootpane for loginState to use the login.xml theme, and the gameplayState to use simple.xml theme.

However, currently the way I see it the theme is loaded in my TWLstateBasedGame class (in initGUI() which calls loadTheme(renderer), using getThemeURL), and not by each individual state. Therefore I can only use one theme throughout the game. I thought about how I could get around the problem but as a complete beginner the only way I could do it would be to make one massive xml theme with everything included (i.e. login and simple combined). Alternatively I could start playing around with the RootPane and BasicTWLGameState classes but I don't want to screw everything up.

Can anyone suggest a good way of switching between different themes for each rootpane?

Thanks,

You make one big XML - or you use <include> to combine them.

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thanks! I've sorted out the problem now.

I also have one more question. When Slick changes between states, everything is still in memory so when I reenter the login state I still have the user's inputted text in the editFields and the log (a text area) still shows all the text from the previous login attempt.

I'm writing a reset method for the login state, so ideally I want to clear all the text in the message log and also the edit fields. However I have no idea how I can clear everything, for text area the only method I can seem to find is appendRow which just adds text.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

TextArea has no appendRow method - that is in the ChatDemo.
And as the name suggests it's only a demo - so if you need additional features you have to add them (loook at ChatDemo.java line 219).

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Oh I see. I've created some additional methods now such as clearText() which just uses the stringbuilder and removes all the strings inside, and everything works.

Also 2 of my gamestates have identical backgrounds but different widgets, so when I transition from one to another there's a flicker on the screen. The two states have different rootpanes so I guess everything has to be rerendered. Is there any way I can avoid this?

EDIT: I found a solution, I have the background as part of slick instead of being loaded in the xml file