Cocos2d schedule method in NSObject

Question

Hey Guys, It's me again with a Cocos2D problem. :-D

I create the main character of my upcoming game as a sublclass of NSObject. This class has a property for the Sprite, Spritesheet and all that stuff. But now I have the following problem.

I want to schedule a method for animating the sprite. That action which should be scheduled every second. But because I'm using a subclass of NSObject to hold all my data, I cannot use [self schedule:@selector(action:) interval:1.0]. Is there another way? I don't want to use NSTimer, because I then can't you the CCDirector anymore to break the game. It'd really be helpful if you could help me. :-D

Sandro Meier

Answer 1

Lots of ways to skin that cat, but here are a few:

• Subclass CCNode instead of NSObject and call [yourClass schedule: interval:]
• Expose a simplified selector that internally calls [self.sprite schedule: interval:]
• Externally call [yourClass.sprite schedule: interval:]
• Internally call [self.sprite schedule: interval:]