Source Code Question: Can someone explain to me how exactly the references in State or StateManager are set?

[rimdeker]

I am trying to understand the Phaser source code and came across a weird part that I just can't figure out. Where and how are the properties (references) in State set to the actual objects that we later use?

I thought that "this" might point to Phaser.Game later (i.e. by calling the Phaser.State methods from the Phaser.Game object) but printing out "this" from within a Phaser.State object does in fact return a Phaser.State object. So now I'm all confused about where these references are updated.

[Tom Atom]

Hi, look at StateManager.js: https://github.com/photonstorm/phaser/blob/v2.4.6/src/core/StateManager.js#L452

These references are set when state is set as current one: https://github.com/photonstorm/phaser/blob/v2.4.6/src/core/StateManager.js#L516

 

[rimdeker]

9 minutes ago, Tom Atom said:

Hi, look at StateManager.js: https://github.com/photonstorm/phaser/blob/v2.4.6/src/core/StateManager.js#L452

These references are set when state is set as current one: https://github.com/photonstorm/phaser/blob/v2.4.6/src/core/StateManager.js#L516

 

Holy hell. Thank you so much. I've been looking and grepping all over the files all night. Totally missed this!