rexui-interactions-and-effects
DevelopmentUse when building Phaser RexUI interactions, gesture behaviors, anchors, fullscreen buttons, touch event blocking, drag/click/tap/press/swipe/pan/pinch/rotate handling, or UI effects such as flip, shake, fade, easeMove, skew, and perspective via this.rexUI.add.* or this.rexUI.*.
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RexUI Interactions And Effects
Use this skill when RexUI UI objects need input behavior, gesture recognition, screen anchoring, event isolation, or small visual effects.
Use This First
| Need | Prefer |
|---|---|
| Button-like click on one object | this.rexUI.add.click(gameObject, config) |
| Close a popup by clicking outside it | this.rexUI.add.clickOutside(panel, config) |
| Tap, double-tap, long press, swipe, pan | tap, press, swipe, pan |
| Two-finger scale or rotate | pinch and rotate |
| Make an object draggable | this.rexUI.add.drag(gameObject, config) or this.rexUI.requestDrag(gameObject) |
| Stop gameplay input under a UI overlay | this.rexUI.add.touchEventStop(gameObject, config) |
| Keep a panel aligned to viewport resize | anchor config or this.rexUI.add.anchor(gameObject, config) |
| Toggle fullscreen from an image/button | this.rexUI.add.fullscreenButton(gameObject, config) |
| Animate opacity or position | this.rexUI.fadeIn, fadeOutDestroy, easeMoveTo, easeMoveFrom |
| Card flip, impact feedback, temporary skew/perspective | flip, shake, skew, perspective, perspectiveCard |
Core Rules
- Behaviors attach to existing game objects; create and lay out the target first.
- Most behavior factories are under
this.rexUI.add.*, but fade, easeMove, requestDrag, andisInTouchingare methods onthis.rexUIitself. - Use npm import paths such as
phaser4-rex-plugins/templates/ui/ui-plugin.jsin generated app code. Source paths in these notes point to this repository only. - For layout objects, call
.layout()before anchoring, hit testing, clickOutside, flip, skew, perspective, or animation that depends on final bounds. - For pointer-heavy scenes, add extra pointers with
this.input.addPointer(count). Pinch and rotate need at least 2 pointers. - Avoid attaching competing gestures to the same object without a clear priority. Scrollable components already use pointer gestures internally.
- Store behavior instances when they must be enabled, disabled, reused, or cancelled later.
Factory And Helper Boundaries
Use this.rexUI.add.*:
const click = this.rexUI.add.click(button, { mode: 'pointerup' });
const drag = this.rexUI.add.drag(panel, { axis: 'both' });
const stop = this.rexUI.add.touchEventStop(panel, { stopAllLevels: true });
Use this.rexUI.*:
this.rexUI.fadeIn(panel, 200);
this.rexUI.fadeOutDestroy(panel, 200, true);
this.rexUI.easeMoveTo(panel, 300, '+=0', '-=80', 'Cubic');
this.rexUI.requestDrag(panel);
Many RexUI layout/widget objects inherit BaseSizer convenience methods for the common click, click-outside, touching, and bounds-check cases:
panel.onClick((click, gameObject, pointer) => submit());
panel.onClickOutside(() => closePanel());
panel.onTouching((inTouch, gameObject, pointer) => stepValue(1), undefined, { cooldown: 120 });
panel.disableClick();
panel.isPointerInBounds();
Use these methods when the target is already a RexUI sizer/widget and the handler is local to that object. Use explicit this.rexUI.add.click, clickOutside, or inTouching behavior objects when code needs to store the behavior instance, attach to a plain Phaser game object, or share/reconfigure the behavior independently.
Gotcha: fullscreenButton is registered as this.rexUI.add.fullscreenButton(...). Do not use the capitalized type name as the factory call.
Gotcha: in the RexUI factory source, pinch and rotate are scene-level gesture recognizers. Prefer this.rexUI.add.pinch(config) and this.rexUI.add.rotate(config), then apply the returned gesture values to the object you want to transform.
References
- For gesture selection, events, and reduced input recipes, read references/gesture-behaviors.md.
- For fade, easeMove, flip, shake, skew, and perspective recipes, read references/effect-recipes.md.
- For responsive anchoring, fullscreen buttons, touch event blocking, and layer/input notes, read references/anchor-fullscreen.md.
Source Map
templates/ui/ui-plugin.js: RexUI factory registration and helper methods.templates/ui/ui-plugin.d.ts: public factory names and helper method names.templates/ui/basesizer/BaseSizer.d.ts: inherited click, click-outside, touching, pointer bounds, and child-target convenience methods.templates/ui/click,clickoutside,tap,press,swipe,pan,pinch,rotate,drag,intouching: input behavior wrappers.templates/ui/anchor,fullscreenbutton,toucheventstop,layermanager: viewport, fullscreen, event isolation, and layer helpers.templates/ui/flip,shake,skew,perspective,perspectivecard,fade,easemove: visual effects and motion helpers.