Getting a node's scheduled timer « cocos2d for iPhone

Getting a node's scheduled timer

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Decept
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I have a type of object that is continously created during my game and each object has a scheduled message that will fire only once. Now I want to visually display an object's internal timer's remaining time. I've been digging around in the source but I can't find a way to do what I want.

As far as I can see it shouldn't be a problem adding a getter function to CocosNode to retreive the timer and in Timer add a getter for the remaining time.

I have two questions though:
1. Is there perhaps a better way to do this?
2. Is it legal to make modifications to the engine?

Posted 2 years ago #
Clain
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1) I don't know if there's another way.
2) Yes it's legal. But be aware that if you modify cocos source files, you'll have extra work to do when you update to a newer version. It's probably better to either subclass cocos classes or create categories. Since you're modifying CocosNode, subclassing is not appropriate so you should go with categories.

Posted 2 years ago #
Decept
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Thank you!

I'm still pretty new to Obj-C and I totally forgot about categories. That worked great, with minimal effort.

Posted 2 years ago #

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