Ahhhhhhhh! Clint you are a star!
> I think I am following you. One instance I noticed you didn't try was:
>
> pAddressBook[symbol(aGroup)].addProp(aSpriteRef, [1])
Yes I'd forgotten that one. In the end I didn't need to convert <aGroup>
to a symbol since it already was one, so...
pAddressBook[aGroup].addProp(aSpriteRef, [1])
did it for me.
Thanks very much
Jon R
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Rowe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 8:47 AM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: <lingo-l> OOPS - handler not found in object
>
>
> Hi all
>
> a little conundrum here, I'm working on a very low-spec
> machine but have
> lots of animation bits that I want to play. So instead of having them
> all play at the same time I'm sequencing them according to various
> states that the application encounters. To do this I have set up an
> <animation manager> object which i use to turn animations on and off.
> This <animation manager> has a propertyList <pAddressBook> which holds
> references to all the sprites and calls accessor methods in
> the sprites
> behaviours to control when they play etc.
>
> Now I thought it would be a good idea if the animations were
> grouped so
> I can turn, say, all the <icons> group on or off at one time
> etc. So now
> when the sprites initialise themselves they pass a <group>
> identifier to
> the <animation manager> along with their sprite reference. The
> <animation manager> then adds them to its property list thus, where
> aGroup = #icons:
>
> on regAddress me, aSpriteRef, aGroup
>
> if voidP(getAProp(pAddressBook, aGroup)) then
> -- put "no group exists"
> addProp pAddressBook, aGroup, [:]
> end if
> -- more code to be added here to fill the group
> end
>
> This gives pAddressBook = [#icons:[:]]
>
> so now having set up the group I want to add the sprite refs of all
> sprites within that group to the sublist #icons. So I've
> tried using...
>
> addProp pAddressBook.aGroup, aSpriteRef, [1]
>
> and...
>
> addProp pAddressBook.value(aGroup), aSpriteRef, [1]
>
> and...
>
> (pAddressBook.aGroup).addProp(aSpriteRef, [1])
>
> but director complains about all these. So my question is how do I
> access my #icons sublist with a variable that evaluates to #icons? My
> only thought is to use integers rather than symbols for my group names
> but that doesn't seem very elegant to me although it would undoubtedly
> work. Any ideas?
>
> Hope this makes sense to someone.cheers
>
> Jon Rowe
>
>
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