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The parameters and the body

The parameters required by this method and the body of the method are the same as for the first constructor discussed above.

The Draw method of the Sprite class

Listing 4 shows the Draw method of the Sprite class in its entirety.

Listing 4 . The Draw method of the Sprite class.

public void Draw(SpriteBatch spriteBatch) { spriteBatch.Draw(texture,position,Color.White);}//end Draw method //-------------------------------------------------//}//end Sprite class }//end namespace

This method should be called after a call to the SpriteBatch.Begin method and before a call to the SpriteBatch.End method.

A single parameter

The method requires a single parameter, which is a reference to the SpriteBatch object on which the Begin method has been called.

The body of the Sprite.Draw method

You should recognize the single statement in the method as a call to the simplest available Draw method belonging to the SpriteBatch object. This version of the SpriteBatch.Draw method allows the caller to specify

  • The texture or image to be drawn.
  • The position in the game window relative to the upper left corner of the window at which the image will be drawn.
  • A color tint that will be applied to the image with White being no change in color.

The end of the class

Listing 4 signals the end of the Sprite class.

The Game1 class

Methods of the Game1 class were overridden to demonstrate the use of the Sprite class to produce the output described earlier .

The class named Game1 begins in Listing 5 .

Listing 5 . Beginning of the class named Game1.

namespace XNA0126Proj { public class Game1 : Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game {GraphicsDeviceManager graphics; SpriteBatch spriteBatch;//References to the Sprite objects are stored in this // List object.List<Sprite>sprites = new List<Sprite>(); int maxSprites = 24;//Max number of sprites.int frameCnt = 0;//Game loop frame counter //This is the limit on the number of frames in which// the sprites are moved. int moveLim = 200;

Listing 5 simply declares several instance variables, most of which you should recognize. The others are well described by the comments. However,one of the instance variables, sprites , introduces a concept that is new to this module.

The generic List class

Listing 5 declares a variable named sprites and populates it with a reference to a new generic List object that is conditioned to store and retrieve references to objects of the class Sprite .

Here is some of what the documentation has to say about the generic List class:

"Represents a strongly typed list of objects that can be accessed by index. Provides methods to search, sort, and manipulate lists."

The generic List class provides many more capabilities than I will use in this program. I will use an object of the generic List class to store references to Sprite objects that I can later access using a zero-based index. This will eliminate the requirement to declarea separate reference variable for each of the Sprite objects that I instantiate.

The modified Game1 constructor

The constructor for the Game1 class was modified to set the size of the game window as shown in Listing 6 .

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