When you calling a "drawing" method like drawCircle(), the Flash Player doesn't actually draw at that point. Instead, it adds this drawing command to its vector "display list" and later, when no ActionScript is executing, it rasterizes this display list into pixels and puts them on the screen. So you can't draw the whole path in a single method. Instead, use the Timer class and periodically call a method to draw a bit more of the path.
- Gordon ________________________________ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of chrisvet2001 Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 4:41 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] sequential addition of sprite objects I'm trying to develop a system to show how to get from point A to point B on a floorplan... I'm having 2 problems -- 1) the best way to display these points over a period of time (to 'animate' the points) 2) when i do build in some delays, nothing gets displayed until all of the points are already there... my prototype code is below... package { import flash.display.Sprite; public class Breadcrumbs extends Sprite { private var _pathX:Array = ['10','30','30','75']; private var _pathY:Array = ['10','10','50','50']; public function Breadcrumbs() { init() } public function init():void { drawPath(); } private function drawPath():void { var lastX:int = _pathX[0]; var lastY:int = _pathY[0]; var currentTime:Date; var previousTime:Date = new Date(); var i:int = 0; while (i < _pathX.length) { currentTime = new Date(); if (currentTime.getTime() > previousTime.getTime() + 5000) { var s:Sprite = new Sprite(); s.graphics.beginFill(0xFF0000, 1); s.graphics.drawCircle(_pathX[i], _pathY[i], 2); addChild(s); i++; } } } } } Any Ideas as to how to improve the 'delay' code and/or how to get the individual points to show up one at a time? Thanks, Chris
