Hi,
I'm new to Sparrow, but I'm already in love so go easy on me if I ask the wrong question 
I'm trying to create a player class which has many states (walk, run...) and each state is represented by a series of frames. I know I should be using SPTextureAtlas but do I have to have one SPMovieClip for each state or is there a better way to handle this?
Thanks
Hi,
what you could do is store separate arrays of textures and swap to a different array each time you change state. I don't think SPMovieClip has any built in facility for doing this so you'll probably need to make your own animation class that extends SPMovieClip.
I have built something similar in the past, but this was before Sparrow included the SPMovieClip class, so mine extends SPImage and just swaps the texture on enterframe, referencing the current texture array.
cheers,
Alex
Sparrow doesn't have anything high-level to handle objects with multiple animations (generally what I call a "Sprite," though Sparrow's meaning of the word is different). You're left to manage that on your own, potentially with what alex_h suggested.
Personally, I wouldn't extend SPMovieClip for this, as what you're looking for isn't a movie clip but a collection of movie clips that you can switch between. I would instead create a subclass of SPSprite that contains multiple SPMovieClip objects and switch between those as necessary (or create them on the fly).
You could roll that functionality into your Player class, but since it's something you're extremely likely to reuse (ie: for enemies), I would go ahead and make something a bit more general.
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