Hi all,
Coming from an OO programming background, I find the use of inner classes, e.g. classes ‘nested’ inside other classes is a really useful technique for grouping functionality where you have a parent class that needs its own classes within its own context. Thats not a great explanation, so my example is that I’m writing a UI layout manager with panels that lay themselves out neatly. I want Panel objects that only have context within the UIManager class.
It appears that Codea supports this, which is very neat, e.g.:
UIManager = class()
function UIManager:init()
self.panels = {}
end
function UIManager:addPanel(props)
table.insert(self.panels, UIManager.Panel())
end
UIManager.Panel = class()
function UIManager.Panel:init(props)
end
function UIManager.Panel:draw()
end
```
The above is pseudo-code but gives the idea...
I didn't know you could do this, but its quite neat as you can keep a lot of context in one place and not have a proliferation of class tabs with tiny contextual classes...
May be common knowledge, but was new to me!
Brookesi