How to Press and Drag to Reposition a Window in Godot

Dragonforge Development — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 01:20:50 +0000

Ever wanted to create a floating window that stayed on the desktop or phone screen, but could be moved around by pressing and holding? While the process is similar to clicking and dragging a 2D texture, the process is a little different. (Example written for Godot 4.3 RC3 and later.)

A coin rendered in a floating window.

Set Enable Long Click Press As Right Click to True in the Project Settings. (Project Menu -> Project Settings... -> General Tab -> Input Devices -> Pointing)
Create a Window node.
Set Borderless to True. (Inspector -> Flags)
Set Transparent to True. (Inspector -> Flags)
Add the following code to your script:

extends Window
var is_dragging = false
var mouse_offset


func _input(event: InputEvent) -> void:
    if event is InputEventMouseButton and event.button_index == MOUSE_BUTTON_RIGHT:
        if event.is_pressed():
            if get_visible_rect().has_point(event.position):
                is_dragging = true
                mouse_offset = event.position
        else:
            is_dragging = false
    if event is InputEventMouseMotion and is_dragging:
        position += Vector2i(event.position - mouse_offset)

That's all there is to it! You can now right-click and drag to move the window on any OS, or long press and then drag, just like you would an app on Android!

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How to Create a Fine-grained Personal Access Token (PAT) on GitHub

Dragonforge Development — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 01:32:09 +0000

While developing in Godot, and using the GitHub plugin, it was very difficult to figure out how to create a fine-grained PAT on GitHub. In fact, searches on it mostly turned up people complaining about how difficult it was. It the process of making a course on learning professional development skills while making a game, we ended up writing down the steps. We added it to the Godot GitHub Plugin Wiki, and thought it might be helpful here too.

If you're wondering why you'd use a PAT - don't. An SSH key is a better solution. It's more secure than having to copy and paste a text string you have to put somewhere. But, if you know you need a PAT, here's how to make one that limits the risks.

How to Make a Fine-grained Personal Access Token (PAT)

Click your profile photo.
Select Settings. (Near the bottom).
Click <> Developer Settings in the left sidebar. (It’s the last option.)
Click Personal access tokens in the left sidebar.
Click Fine-grained token.
Click Generate new token.
Name it whatever project(s) for which you are making it.
Set the Expiration for as long as you like. (We don’t recommend over 90 days).
Make a note to yourself in the Description field. (You'll be glad you did this in a month.)
Select Only select repositories under Repository access.
Click the Select Repositories dropdown button that just appeared. 12. Select your repo(s). (You can add as many as you like.)
Open Repository permissions under the Permissions header.
Select Read and Write from the Contents dropdown.
Click the green Generate token button at the bottom of the page.
Copy your token and store it somewhere secure. You cannot come back to Git to see what it is later, and will have to make a new one if you lose this one.

You now have a PAT limited to only the repos you selected, and just has basic read access to metadata, and read/write access to code. This is all the access 99% of people need from the command line on their computer.

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How to Press and Drag to Reposition a Window in Godot

How to Create a Fine-grained Personal Access Token (PAT) on GitHub

How to Make a Fine-grained Personal Access Token (PAT)