Using .image and then setSpriteAnimation() gives error message.

vinicity

Doing the following:

a = createSprite()
a.image = myImage
setSpriteAnimation(a, b, c)

yields the following error message:

Sprite image must be set before calling setSpriteAnimation.

The workaround is to use

setSpriteImage(a, myImage)

instead, but I prefer to set the Sprite params directly.

petermeisenstein

At first I dont know anything about sprites but i think you can only use a.image when you declared it at first in a struct but maybe i could be totally wrong

pianofire

@vinicity I think that this is a known problem with this sprite property

petermeisenstein

@pianofire Is it a bug ?

Martin

It is not a bug.

Accessing the image of a sprite directly like that is not implemented. It is one of the few that is not. I confirmed this for myself last week when I was trying to do this myself and it was not working (I have access to the source code). By writing a.image = myImage you have created a custom sprite property that has nothing to do with the sprite's image. You must use setSpriteImage(sprite, image) in this instance.

[edit] I suppose it is fair to say that it is a bug in the help pages :)

pianofire

@Martin I had better update it then!

Martin

Not had my daily pint of tea yet :)

vinicity

OK, so the bug is with the Help page, and setting it directly is not supported. That's fine. I was fooled by the Help page... :)

It would be great if all the sprite params would be accessible directly, though. It feels kind of arbitrary at this time which are and which are not.