Brilliant feature, thanks for adding this.
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 4:02 AM, richardolsson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Choons,
>
> Are you familiar with iterators in general? This is a very simple (but
> powerful ;)) implementation of that pattern. This is how you use it if
> you want to loop through all assets that has been loaded:
>
> var asset : IAsset;
> var it : AssetLibraryIterator = AssetLibrary.createIterator();
> while (asset = it.next()) {
> trace(asset.name);
> }
>
> You can also jump back and forth (or use a for loop if you prefer)
> using the numAssets property and setIndex() method, and retrieve the
> current asset using the currentAsset property:
>
> var i : uint;
> for (i=0; i < it.numAsset; i++) {
> it.setIndex(i);
> trace(it.currentAsset.name);
> }
>
>
> If you want to limit the iteration to just a particular type, or a
> particular namespace, you specify these as parameters in the
> createIterator call:
>
> AssetLibrary.createIterator(AssetType.MESH); // Only meshes
> AssetLibrary.createIterator(null, "myns"); // All in NS "myns"
> AssetLibrary.createIterator(AssetType.MESH, "myns"); // Both
>
> The third example above will only return meshes in namespace "myns",
> i.e. no materials, textures or anything else from that namespace, and
> no meshes from any other namespace.
>
> If you want to filter using some custom method, use the third
> parameter to define a function callback which will be invoked with a
> single parameter (the asset) for every asset during the filter stage.
> That method must return a boolean indicating whether the particular
> asset should be included or not.
>
> function includeIfCar(asset : IAsset) : Boolean
> {
> if (asset.name.indexOf('car')>=0)
> return true;
> else
> return false;
> }
>
> AssetLibrary.createIterator(null,null, includeIfCar);
>
>
> Regardless of how you invoke createIterator(), the returned object is
> always an iterator that you should use the way I described above. Hope
> this helps!
>
>
> Cheers
> /R
>
>
> On May 24, 6:13 am, Choons <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi folks- I'm working on my first multi- asset project using the
> > AssetLibrary. I named everything on the ASSET COMPLETE event and need
> > to loop through the library to initialize it all. It seems like
> > createIterator is the function for that but I can't get it to
> > recognize any of my input params. How do you use that beast?
>
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Ross Smith
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