Should setAnchorPoint() be available in Sprite?

bowerandy

Hi,

I know you have TextField>>setAnchorPoint() on your road map but is there some reason why it shouldn't actually be available to all Sprites? I find myself wanting to position a Shape relative to an anchor point and I can't see why this shouldn't be inherited from Sprite. My expectation would be that all Sprites should really have a local origin (anchor point) which determines their position offset and their rotation centre. What do you think?

Best regards

Scouser

@bowerandy: Search is your friend. This has been discussed a few times. One of the most recent discussions can be found here where @atilim has updated the feature to include shapes but TextFields still have priority. When shapes are implemented it will be quite a trivial point to create a transparent shape & add your sprite as a child then set the anchor point of the shape.

bowerandy

Ok, thanks, I didn't see that. The question still remains though, why the method shouldn't be moved to Sprite. I would have thought it would be a common implementation?

Scouser

I think it may have something to do with the OpenGL implementation. It appears that setAnchorPoint() is being implemented on the lowest level drawing primitives only for speed. I may be wrong on this but I'm sure someone else will be along soon to correct me if I am.