How can I create a button in Codea

Question

So I am new to lua and I am curious how to make buttons. P.S. I work with Codea engine so the fn tag doesn’t work. I looked everywhere but I can’t find a good tutorial.

there are no buttons in Lua so I edited your title. – Piglet Nov 26 '21 at 08:38 — Piglet, Nov 26 '21 at 08:38

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 26 '21 at 08:43

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Codea doesn't seem to provide buttons. But you can draw and you can process touch input. So you have all that is necessary to create your own buttons.

Draw a button, then check wether the screen was touched inside the buttons boundaries.

https://codea.io/reference/

and especially

https://codea.io/reference/Graphics.html

https://codea.io/reference/Touch.html

If you'd simply google "Codea button" you would find several examples...

answered Nov 26 '21 at 08:43

Piglet