Play game button / Initial Menu

[vfx1b]

Hi, I'm building a widget in a transparent electron window and was wondering if its possible to skip the initial menu/loader ? I couldn't find anything in the docs, issues and by googling.

[eonarheim]

Hi @vfx1b! Thanks for opening a discussion!

I'll spend some time today to update the documentation around the possible engine options/customizing the loader.

I think you might be able to use the engine option suppressPlayButton, the caveat is that the browser might suppress web audio (but not sure if electron is different and doesn't have the same user requirements as a browser)

const game = new ex.Engine({
  suppressPlayButton: true
});

As for the loading bar, you could build a custom loader with a transparent background or whatever look and feel you want. A few folks have had some success and some examples in this thread #2464

Let me know if you have any questions!

[vfx1b]

Thank you so much! I'll try this out and report back.

[mattjennings]

You can create a custom loader like this to make the loader draw nothing and automatically start:

class Loader extends ex.Loader {
  showPlayButton() {
    return Promise.resolve();
  }

  draw() {}
}

const loader = new Loader()

I typically use something like this during development so I dont have to click play after making changes. However @eonarheim makes a good point that the play button allows audio to be enabled once clicked, so that is something to consider if you use audio.