Graphics

[Scott Rossi]

Recently, Shari  wrote:

> Has anyone here every played iPoker?
> 
> I love the way they handle the player's chips and have been pondering
> how to do it in Metacard.  If each chip were an object, you'd have a
> helluva lot of objects.
> 
> I'm not familiar enough with other ways of handling graphics to do it
> without objects.

What is so unique about the chips?  If they're separate then yes, you would
use a separate object for each chip.  If your question is how to manage them
efficiently, you could create your chips as buttons and set their icon
properties to the appropriate source chip image stored in your stack.  This
way you can have a thousand chips (buttons) with virtually no additional
overhead since all the chips are only pointers original chip art.

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design
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