The Tile class

The tile class contains primitives to display the contents of a SpriteSheet.

See also: Widget

Example:

  dofile("SDK/Graphics2D.lua")



  -- Load a spritesheet

  spritesheet = SpriteSheet("maps/anim.png",90,90,2)



  -- Create a looping animation

  -- from 0 to 3 with 70ms per frame

  animation = SpriteAnimation(0,3,70,true)



  -- Create a tile without caption

  tile = Tile(20,20,90,90,spritesheet, 0, 0, "")



  -- Attach animation to tile

  tile:attachAnimation(animation)



  -- Add tile to the main canvas

  mainCanvas:addWidget(tile)



  function onSceneUpdate()

    -- Update tile animation

    tile:update()

  end

Tile(x,y,w,h,spritesheet,tx,ty,text)

Constructs a Tile object. The text parameter is optional.

function Tile:attachAnimation(animation)

Attach an SpriteAnimation to an Tile object
and the animation will automatically apply when calling
'Tile:update' every frame.

Parameter

animation

function Tile:update()

Updates the attached animation if there is one.