Notification of Texture Loading

[mwatt]

Hi all,

 

As the Pixi-based (canvas) project I am working on becomes more mature, I find that my usage of sprites is increasing a lot.   It is reaching the point where I begin to think I will need to do pre-loading, which was not necessary earlier in the project.  The point of this post is to get recommendations on knowing when textures are loaded.

 

I looked in the code and noticed that Pixi is notifying itself when textures are loaded, so it can know when to update.  However, unless I missed it, there is no exposed notification.  Did I miss it?  If not, I need to figure out how best to do this.  I don't want to modify Pixi source, although that would work quite nicely.  I could do a timer-based poling and look at texture properties to discover this information but that seems ungainly.

 

I should add that I am currently loading image by image, not via sprite sheet - and would prefer to keep it that way since some images may be dynamically replaced by the user. 

 

Any suggestions?

[bubamara]

PIXI.AssetLoader can be handy

function preloadImages() {	var assets = ["image01.png", "image02.png"];		var loader = new PIXI.AssetLoader(assets);		// when all images are loaded call onImagesLoaded function	loader.onComplete = onImagesLoaded;	loader.load();}

[mwatt]

That ought to do it.

 

I knew there had to be some way.  I guess I was too fixated and trying to do something with PIXI.Texture.loadFromImage.

 

Thank you.