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Hi,
I might be going insane, but I've been working through a couple of tutorials that instruct me to create a new class file with a Subclass of CCScene, but the only options I can see in the XCode New File dialogue are : CCNode, CCSprite and CCLayer.
I've installed the latest 0.99.4 template and am going slightly insane!
Thanks,
Steve
From looking at the default code in the cocos2d project template, it appears that the scene is returned in a CCLayer subclass. Is that right?
One of the tutorials I'm following is here : http://www.coconutcollege.net/c201.html
yeti
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Yep, a fresh CCScene is returned from a 'scene' class method in some of the CCLayer subclass examples. It's done this way as on it's own CCScene has no real functionality, it's only used as an abstract concept. This is I suspect why there's no option to create a CCScene from the new file dialog.
Creating a class method that returns a CCScene object inside your CCLayer subclass (with the layer added to it) just makes things more convenient and compact. However, it's perfectly fine to subclass CCScene as is mentioned in the coconutcollege tutorials then instantiate your layer from within there, the outcome is the same it's just a different way of doing it ;-)
Hope this helps.
Except the way that they suggest doesn't work, as CCScene is no longer available in the selection as they suggest.
There is also a pulldown menu on the right, titled "Subclass of", which by default has "CCNode" selected. CCNode is a generic Cocos2d class, which on its own provides a basic set of functionality common to most of the other Cocos2d classes. In fact, classes like CCSprite and CCScene are subclasses of CCNode. In this case, we want our new class to inherit directly from CCScene, so we must change this selection to "CCScene" before clicking on the "Next" button.
I'll follow your advice and use CCLayer instead. Thanks!
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