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    Support for something like layers?

    MikeHartMikeHart Guru
    edited December 2011 in General questions
    Hi,

    I just had a look at the API documentation. There is the stage, but I think it is only one general container for all objects.

    The question I have atm. and before I can test this myself is, how can you layer images in the right order. Something like

    -draw background first
    -then the game objects
    -on top, draw UI elements

    Is this supported?
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    • atilimatilim Maintainer
      edited December 2011
      You can add 3 sprites in any order you want:
      background = Sprite.new()
game = Sprite.new()
ui = Sprite.new()
 
stage:addChild(background)
stage:addChild(game)
stage:addChild(ui)
      And then add/remove children to background, game and ui sprites. So that background (and its children) is always at back and UI is always at front.

      But it's better to derive your own classes from Sprite and then add these. So that you can integrate your own game/ui logic to these Sprites:
      Game = gideros.class(Sprite)
UI = gideros.class(Sprite)
 
game = Game.new()
ui = UI.new()
 
stage:addChild(game)
stage:addChild(ui)

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    • MikeHartMikeHart Guru
      NICE!!! That is a very clever approach! Thanks for the explanation.
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