RE: Assign idiom

["Bilyk, Alex" <ABilyk@...>]

I was also thinking table here. It would probably be more efficient as
well, compared to a bunch of function calls.

-----Original Message-----
From: lua-bounces@bazar2.conectiva.com.br
[mailto:lua-bounces@bazar2.conectiva.com.br] On Behalf Of Rob Heyes
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 9:34 AM
To: Lua list
Subject: Re: Assign idiom

Leigh McRae wrote:

Some people may frown on this, but your sprite's parameter setting
methods could each return self
then you could use code like

   self.spBackGround = CreateSprite():setSize(10,
10):setName('MySprite') etc.

Another possibility is to pass a table to CreateSprite with the values
e.g.

   self.spBackGround = CreateSprite({Width = 10, Height = 10, Name =
'MySprite'})

> Yeah, I need sp after that.  The pattern is that I create a sprite to
be 
> stored in 'self' and then configure sp with calls. Thanks anyways.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo" 
> <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br>
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> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 12:09 PM
> Subject: Re: Assign idiom
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> 
>>> local    sp = self.spBackGround = CreateSprite()
>>> sp:setSize( 10, 10 )
>>
>> If you don't need sp after that, try
>> CreateSprite():setSize( 10, 10 )
>>
>>
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