Small tip when declaring sprite constants

[Sporadic]

Hi all,

 

I've changed the way I declare my sprite constants in my code.

 

Instead of like the examples;

' particle/text layer 0

DIM background% :background=1

DIM water% :water=2

DIM poulpe1% :poulpe1=3

DIM poulpe2% :poulpe2=4

DIM poulpe3% :poulpe3=5

DIM poulpe4% :poulpe4=6

 

 

Do this;

' particle/text layer 0

DIM background% :background=1

DIM water% :water=background+1

DIM poulpe1% :poulpe1=water+1

DIM poulpe2% :poulpe2=poulpe1+1

DIM poulpe3% :poulpe3=poulpe2+1

DIM poulpe4% :poulpe4=poulpe3+1

The outcome of doing it the second way, is if you need to add a sprite in the middle of your list, you don't have to adjust all the following variables. You just have to put your sprite declaration in the middle and +1 from the one before it. Then adjust the one after it to +1 from your new variable

Once you have lots of sprites, this really helps speed things up. It's also less error prone.

Example after inserting a new sprite;

' particle/text layer 0

DIM background% :background=1

DIM water% :water=background+1

DIM poulpe1% :poulpe1=water+1

DIM NEWSPRITE% : NEWSPRITE=poulpe1+1

DIM poulpe2% :poulpe2=NEWSPRITE+1

DIM poulpe3% :poulpe3=poulpe2+1

DIM poulpe4% :poulpe4=poulpe3+1

Hope this helps

[sh3-rg]

 

Hi all,

 

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Hope this helps

 

 

That is a top tip. We tried to make some sensible use of ENUM, but it never quite worked out and always seemed like a chore and not as foolproof as it might have been (thanks to Raptor's way of declaring multiple objects of same type) - your way could get around this fairly easily, good stuff. I think it's probably time to update some of the tutorials :0) (although maybe I'm a little worried that it might be confusing to an absolute beginner, hmmmm... but it's definitely worthy of mention in the "working with rB+" section!)

 

I know I'll be doing it your way from now on at least, cheers.

Edited July 31, 2015 by sh3-rg

[Sporadic]

 

That is a top tip. We tried to make some sensible use of ENUM, but it never quite worked out and always seemed like a chore and not as foolproof as it might have been (thanks to Raptor's way of declaring multiple objects of same type) - your way could get around this fairly easily, good stuff. I think it's probably time to update some of the tutorials :0)

It also helps if you have multiple sprites defined for 1 sprite in the object list.

 

Then in code for the following sprite declaration you can do something like NEWSPRITE+16 and so on. Or NEWSPRITE+NUMBEROFBADDIESCONST where NUMBEROFBADDIESCONST=16

Edited July 31, 2015 by Sporadic

[sh3-rg]

It also helps if you have multiple sprites defined for 1 sprite in the object list.

 

Then in code for the following sprite declaration you can do something like NEWSPRITE+16 and so on. Or NEWSPRITE+NUMBEROFBADDIESCONST where NUMBEROFBADDIESCONST=16

 

Exactly, it makes more sense at that point as it's not such a special case anymore.

 

Going to add your info as a page on the site now, thanks again.

[sh3-rg]

Added.

 

Anyone else with similarly handy TopTips should do as Sporadic did and share in the rB+ forum here on AA :0)