Using MovieClip instead of Removing and readding Child

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  February 2013

  That's quite an interesting solution
  
  Well, I usually use Button class, which adds/removes sprites. And since it's just a click, I don't really think it will be an issue, unless you have hundreds of buttons which needs to be clicked as fast as possible, and even then I don't know if there will be much of a difference in performance (since I assume MovieClip does the same only on lower level).
  
  So basically it's a matter of taste how you like to handle it

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• mertocan Member

  February 2013

  Actually , i wont use it for buttons. In my new game i will change the drawn bitmaps in a certain time. I thought that if i use movieclips , user will draw movieclips all the time. I think ,it is not good for memory. However , if i add/remove in the certain time , there are about 50 bitmaps on the stage and it is not good for performance.

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• mertocan Member

  February 2013

  Omg I can use Bitmap:setTexture() . I didnt see it thats niceee

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• techdojo Guru

  February 2013

  In my button widget, I just add the pressed and unpressed images as children and then just set the visibility on the one I want to show.

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• mertocan Member

  February 2013

  I think this is the worst one @techdojo

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• techdojo Guru

  February 2013

  Works well for every case I've used it for so far. The button widget is used as a base for more complex widgets as well (tab bar, toolbar, segmented controls etc) and it works well for that case as well.

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• mertocan Member

  February 2013

  But you are adding 2 objects to the stage. If you had 200 buttons on the screen then it crashes Program will slow down. However, i am not sure that when you make visibility false , does lua removes the object or something like that? or just makes its alpha 0.

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• techdojo Guru

  February 2013

  AFAIK - When the object is invisible, it's not considered for rendering so is more efficient, I'd be more worried about a scenario that required 200 active buttons on screen at once

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• mertocan Member

  February 2013

  It would be a buttons war

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• paul_k_clark Member

  February 2013

  Buttons War

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