Could someone explain the "Callwith();" action?

for hotspots and plugins with the actions like get(name) it gets the hotspots name.

if you do hotspot[test].testaction();
it doesn't have the proper scope to resolve "name".
So you go callwith(hotspot[test],testaction);
so that the scope is relative again.

Hi,
no special significance, this function has no
instead

<action name="action1" >
   action2(%1,%2));
</action>
<action name="action2" >
   tween(hotspot[%1].alpha, %2);
</action>

You can write

<action name="action1" >
   callwith(hotspot[%1], action2(%2));
</action>
<action name="action2" >
   tween(alpha, %1);
</action>

Serge

Zitat von nautama

Thank you very much for your prompt response, sachagriffin, as always you are very kind and knowledgeable. I haven't really understood completely, is it something like: hotspot[get(name)].textaction();???

could you give a specific example of where this could come in handy?

<hotspot name="box onclick="tween(alpha,0);doawholebunchmore stuff();"

so if you have another function and you want to tween boxes alpha and doawholebunchmore stuff(), but instead of

<action name="test">
tween(hotspot[box].alpha,0);
doawholebunchmore stuff();
</action>

You could do

hotspot[box].onclick();

No no you can't because the alpha has lost its scope.

so its
callwith(hotspot[box],onclick);

plus actions called from layers and hotspots oftentimes use the short cuts [ x, y, name ]etc to do effects. just calling hotspot[box].onclick() wouldn't work correctly unless you replaced all your shortcuts with the full name of the hotspot.