Private object variables accessible from outside. about jaws

[ippa]

Thanks for the detailed feedback! You make several good points.

Private variables
The private variables x/y was a major (and hard) design decision for me. I wanted the speed of direct properties. Especially for something you might modify a lot like x/y. The problem is, as you point out, other things that depend on x/y also needs to be updated. I was thinking of using the new setters/getters but skipped them cause of not enough support + not as fast as normal properties.

To a small degree Sprite has the same "problems". Where it's possible to directly do for example "sprite.image = an_image;" but the recommended way is using sprite.setImage(an_image) since then jaws can run code to recalc the bounding box and so on.

What I ended up with in the Sprite-constructor was Both ways. There's (chainable) setters for everything. But you could also go low-level and modify for example x and y directly if you want. I haven't decided yet if I should dump the priv var access and go 100% with chainable setters. Or at least rename all private variables, so it's sprite._x = 100 instead sprite.x = 100 .. as an extra security measure but also point out "Now you're modifying something private!"

Jumping mid air after walking off a ledge
This could be considered a bug, but also a feature ;). I've found in my pixel-perfect games (see www.ippa.se) that it's actually pretty fun being able to jump midair. It makes for some "I'll never make this jump... ooh I made it"-moments.

Rect.js function parameters
True. I don't wan't to break backwards compatibility. It's probably possible to support both the old x,y,width,height and a new object-argument though... pull-requests are welcome ;).

Examples index.html
Good idea, I'll see what I can do here.

Offline development
Right.. I have no ideas how to solve this now though.

[ftvs]

Thanks for the response, ippa. That clarified things.

sprite._x sounds like a decent idea. At least that communicates somewhat that it's supposed to be private.

Thanks.