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EnTerr
Roku Guru
9 years ago

Ground Control to SGt Node: assign event/functions, how?

I am ready on scenography and then i reach this exciting section: "BrightScript/XML Markup Equivalence" wrote: ... you can also create and add nodes to the Scene Graph tree dynamically in BrightScr...
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TheEndless
Channel Surfer
9 years ago
As far as I'm aware, you still have to have an XML file that defines the component, otherwise SceneGraph won't be able to find the component you're trying to create. I don't think there's any way to register a component with SceneGraph via code.

To minimize the XML as much as possible, you could do something like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<component name="myComponent" extends="Group">
    <script type="text/brightscript" uri="pkg:/components/myGroup.brs" />
</component>

Then put all of your code in myGroup.brs, which will include your component specific init() and onKeyEvent() functions. Note that those are not methods on the component itself, but rather intrinsic event handler functions.