Class Group

Extends SceneContent.
Groups some content together. Any action taken on a group is applied to all of it's children.
Defined in: Group.js.

// New Group where the content starts at (10,10).
Group({
   x: 10, y: 10,
   content: [
      Graphic({ url: "./images/ball.png" }),
      Graphic({ url: "./images/beetleship.png", y: 20, x: 30 })
   ]
})


// In this example, the ball will display at (10,10), and the beetleship
// will display at (50,10).

// Moving the group.
myGroup.moveBy({ y: 10 });
// In this example, the ball will now display at (10, 20), and the beetleship
// will display at (50, 20).

Class Summary
Constructor Attributes	Constructor Name and Description
	Group(_details)

Fields borrowed from class SceneContent:: details

Method Summary
Method Attributes	Method Name and Description
	addContent(_content) Adds content to this group.
	getContent() Gets the content of this group.
	updateGroup(_run_time) Updates each of this groups content, and then calculates the groups cumulative bounds.

Methods borrowed from class SceneContent:: draw, extend, getBounds, getName, getParent, getScene, getStage, isActive, isVisible, load, loadBase, moveBy, moveTo, setActive, setSize, setVisible, update, updateBase

Class Detail

Group(_details)

Parameters:

{Object} _details

A JSON object with extra content.

Property	Required	Default
content	no	new Array()

Method Detail

addContent(_content)

Adds content to this group. Content added is first loaded then added to the the other content of this group at which point it will join the draw cycle.

Parameters:
{SceneContent} _content: The SceneContent to add to this group.

getContent()

Gets the content of this group. This implementation returns the actual content array, but should not be used to add content to this group. To add content to this group use the addContent function, which loads the content before adding it to the content array. Using this function to add content to this group will result in that content not being loaded, but being added to the draw cycle.

Returns:: The Content array.

updateGroup(_run_time)

Updates each of this groups content, and then calculates the groups cumulative bounds. This is mainly used by sub classes like Rotate and Translate groups.

Parameters:
_run_time

Classes

Class Group