Re: Assign idiom

[Rob Heyes <rob@...>]

Leigh McRae wrote:

Some people may frown on this, but your sprite's parameter setting methods could each return self
then you could use code like

  self.spBackGround = CreateSprite():setSize(10, 10):setName('MySprite') etc.

Another possibility is to pass a table to CreateSprite with the values e.g.

  self.spBackGround = CreateSprite({Width = 10, Height = 10, Name = 'MySprite'})

> Yeah, I need sp after that.  The pattern is that I create a sprite to be 
> stored in 'self' and then configure sp with calls. Thanks anyways.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo" 
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> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 12:09 PM
> Subject: Re: Assign idiom
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>
> > > local    sp = self.spBackGround = CreateSprite()
> > > sp:setSize( 10, 10 )
> >
> > If you don't need sp after that, try
> > CreateSprite():setSize( 10, 10 )