How to move ImageSprite

[Steve Marcus]

What am I missing?

Canvas canvas1;

ImageSprite movingSprite;

canvas1 = new Canvas(this,R.id.canvas1);

movingSprite = new ImageSprite (canvas1,R.id.aBImageSprite1);

                movingSprite.Rotates(true);

movingSprite.X(50);

movingSprite.Y(50);

movingSprite.Heading(0);

  movingSprite.Interval(45);

  movingSprite.Speed(2);

                movingSprite.Enabled(true);

Shouldn't this move the Image Sprite? It appears on the canvas fine, but it just sits in the same place and doesn't move. 

Also it seems to ignore the X and Y coordinates - it's stuck at (0,0) in the top left of the canvas.

Am I missing something (probably)?

Thanks,

S

[Imp Inc]

Hmm. Not sure about the X, Y thing, but if you want to use the internal timer in the sprite, you have to initialize it. Just run movingSprite.Initialize().

I'll have to take a look at the X, Y thing next weekend.

Ryan

[Imp Inc]

Oh, you should wait until at least screen initialization to try moving the sprite. If you're doing it in define(), that may be why.

[Steve Marcus]

Great yep that worked. Thanks.

[Steve Marcus]

Regarding the XY thing, this seems to work:

movingSprite.X(movingSprite.X()+50);

movingSprite.Y(movingSprite.Y()+50);

but just specifying the number (50) does not seem to.

[Imp Inc]

Hmm.. It should just work, but perhaps it's being picky because it wants a double. Add a "d" at the end of the number to enforce it as a double like so:

movingSprite.X(50d);

or, add a decimal point:

movingSprite.X(50.0);

- Ryan