Comments on: Rich Animations with Fluent Effects

By: gilley55

gilley55 — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:31:55 +0000

i am going to be using your Fluent Effects code in my game and i will be giving you credit for it.

Thanks for sharing it.

By: gilley55

gilley55 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:07:44 +0000

i am going to be using your Fluent Effects code in my game and i will be giving you credit for it.

Thanks for sharing it.

By: aschearer

aschearer — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:37:24 +0000

Hey, you're absolutely right that it uses reflection, and you're also right about the potential cost associated with using reflection. The reason I chose to use reflection is so that I could create a library which you can drop into any project without having to update its hierarchies. Basically I wanted to create something that is orthogonal to your code so that it doesn't create any unwanted dependencies. As for the cost, if you don't have many effects I don't think it should be a problem -- profile your application to see if you're really spending a lot of time with this library. Also, there is a precedent for this type of thing, check out Hibernate for a library which does something similar but for data binding and ORM'ing.

Naturally, if you think it should be done differently feel free to make that change! If you send it back here or somehow alert me to it I will help spread the word.

By: Held

Held — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:34:15 +0000

Hi, the FluentObject work with reflection. I think that is a bad idea! An interface and a abstract calls with empty method is the better way. Little more performance? and you get compile and not runtime errors…

By: aschearer

aschearer — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:35:09 +0000

Sure thing, I’m not sure what the problem is off the top of my head but email me your code and I’ll take a look asap.

By: kev

kev — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:30:57 +0000

hi! the library i quite nice, but i do have a small problem. For the first time i create an object using a timeline (it is basically the same as your coin example, drawing a text instead of a sprite) my game gets stuck for a short (~0.3sec) , but noticeably time. the second time i create an object everthing works fine. do you know what might causes the problem?

By: aschearer

aschearer — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:10:16 +0000

Hey Gornova, sure thing. I wasn't sure that was necessary since the library is really as easy to use as the example above, and I didn't want to have to get everything tidy and ready for public consumption. Regardless, the source has been added to the list of downloads above, or you can just click here.

I've included the source for the demo along with some documentation describing each object. In addition I've created a build file which you can use to quickly get up and running. Simply type "ant run" to start the demo on your machine.

By: Gornova

Gornova — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 08:19:52 +0000

Hi again! I don’t know if i will use this library, but if you can, please put always many many examples with full sources of your ideas! :D