Toggles, checkboxes and radio groups
On/off switches, ticks and single-choice lists, and connecting them to settings.
Use these when the player chooses something: sound on or off, "remember me", easy or hard.
- Toggle Switch: an on/off switch, great for settings.
- Checkbox: a box with a tick.
- Radio Group: a list where only one option can be picked.
- Icon Toggle: a star, heart or your own icon that is filled when on. Favourite, like, sound on/off.
- Star Rating: a row of stars to rate with a tap.
Toggle switch
In Properties:
- Label: the text next to the switch, for example "Music".
- Checked: whether it starts on.
- Colors: Active Track (when on), Inactive Track (when off) and Knob Color.
- Knob Position: knob on the left with text on the right, or the other way round.
- Track Image (on / off) and Knob Image: use your own art instead of colours (see skins).
Checkbox
- Checked: whether it starts ticked.
- Label and Label Side: the text and which side of the box it is on.
- Box: size, shape (square, rounded or circle), fill and border colours, ticked and unticked.
- Mark: a tick, cross, dot or square, with its colour and thickness. Animate Mark draws the tick when it is clicked.
Radio group
- Items: type one option per line, for example Easy, Normal, Hard.
- Selected Index: which option starts selected (0 is the first).
- Layout: vertical, horizontal or a grid.
- Option Style: plain, cards, or buttons without a marker.
Need the player to tick several options? Use the Checkbox List instead. It works like a radio group, but any number of options can be ticked, with an optional limit.
Both can also take their options from a data list instead of typed lines: switch Items from Typed list to Data list.
Icon toggle and star rating
An Icon Toggle turns on and off like a switch, but looks like a game icon:
- Shape: star, heart, diamond, lightning, shield, crown or circle. Or set Icon When On and Icon When Off to use your own pictures, such as a speaker and a muted speaker.
- On Color and Off Color, and When Off: outline only, filled in the off colour, or dimmed.
- Outline Width and Outline Color When On.
- Glow When On and Glow Color.
- Effect When Turned On: pop, bounce, spin or pulse, and how long it lasts.
A Star Rating shows a row of the same shapes, filled up to the Value. Set Number Of Stars (1–10). The player taps a star to rate; tapping the last filled star again lowers the rating by one (turn Tap The Last One Again To Lower off to stop that). Turn Can Be Changed off to show a fixed rating, such as the stars earned on a level.
Bind On or Value to a variable in the Data tab, just like the toggle switch below.
Make them do something
Open the Actions tab. Toggles have special triggers: When Switched ON, When Switched OFF and When Toggle Changes.
The usual setup for a setting is to connect it to a variable:
- Create a variable such as
musicOn(a yes/no value) in Variables. - On the toggle, add When Switched ON → Set Variable → musicOn → true, and When Switched OFF → Set Variable → musicOn → false.
- In the Data tab, bind Checked to
musicOn, so the switch shows the saved choice when the screen opens.
The Settings template does all of this for you. See Variables.