[Feature request] adding new Sprite events

[bali33]

Hi

 

I'm new to phaser and so far is great. I was wondering if it would be worth considering adding new Sprite events/signals like "update" and "onDragUpdate" which I think could be very helpful when developing games.

 

What do you think guys ?

 

Thank you

[Pooya72]

See if events in this example are what you want

http://phaser.io/examples/v2/input/drag-event-parameters

[rich]

Sprites have empty update methods which you can override as needed. You can add whatever code you want in there (and should do so!).

 

I won't ever make a Sprite emit an update event though - just because it could potentially flood the system as most Sprites update 60 times per second, multiply that by all of your sprites and that's a titanic butt-load of events being generated every frame.

 

If you just want to monitor a sprite while it's being dragged then you should use the InputManagers addMovementCallback function. It's still quite high frequency but ONLY during movement events, so much safer to hook in to.