cocos2d for iPhone

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   jason rogers
   Member

   Hi guys and gals

   this question has been annoying me ever since I started playing about with cocos2d:

   how do you create a runtime list of "things" in cocos 2D ?

   I use the terme things because I encountered this problem in two diffrent places:
   1) while creating a menu, we ahve to use
   Menu *menu = [Menu menuWithItems: newGameMenuItem, continueGameMenuItem, helpMenuItem, moreMenuItem, nil];

   but thats ok because finally I don't need a runtime created menu

   2)while creating actions:
   id sequence2 = [Sequence actions:sequence1,a1,a2,nil];
   [image runAction:sequence2];

   this one is annoying me a lot...
   I tried sevral things like passing empty id variables, nil, NSArray... but I just can't find a way to create a variable list of actions.

   its starting to get vital because I'm writting a function that is of this type
   - (id) actionMove:(Directions)direction shouldReverse:(BOOL)reverse;
   since there is 8 directions possible x reversed or not (and I have planned to combien this with other effects later on), I just can't possibly imagine having to write all the diffrent sequences one by one, when something like [sequence addAction:...] would do the trick...

   does anybody have a solution for this?

   thanks

   jason rogers

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   jd
   Member

   Menu *menu = [Menu menuWithItems: nil];
   Then you can create each menuItem separately and add it. At work so I don't have exact syntax but I do it this way.

   I assume you can do the same with actions.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   jason rogers
   Member

   hi again
   the best solution I've found for the moment is this

   - (id) addAction:(id)action beforeSequence:(id)sequence{
   return [Sequence actions: action, sequence, nil];
   }

   I think that works pretty well and it seems to be in the spirit of cocos2d
   let me know if I'm wrong

   jason

   Posted 2 years ago #

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