MovieClip and intercepting set()s

Niicodemus

I have a Camera class that inherits from Sprite that I don't want to actually move, but I'd like to have MovieClip think it's moving it. I overrode all the set*() functions I care about to do what I want when called instead of moving the Camera sprite itself.. This works perfectly with GTween, since it actually calls Camera:set(). However, I'd like to be able to use MovieClip, but MovieClip appears to do it's transformations behind the scenes and doesn't call any of my overridden set*() functions. Is there something I'm missing, or another way to accomplish this? The only thing I can think of is to actually give MovieClip a real sprite, then create an ENTER_FRAME event to query the state of the sprite, and if it's moved, then run my actual code. However, this seems quite inefficient. I like the fact that currently I only have to process camera code if it's moved.

Thanks,
Nathan Shafer

atilim

You're not missing anything. MovieClip is an internal class and uses internal set() function (which you cannot override) and GTween is a Lua code where you can override set() function.