New to apps - can anyone help?

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#1

I’ve been given the task of building an app which is essentially a catalogue of items. I’m new to all this but have managed to get an app working quite well flipping through pages and all looking quite nice.

I need to have a little graphic of 5 circles in the top corner of a page which when you open that page lights up with either 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 of the circles (like a kind of indication of quality of that particular product).

When googling this I hear alot about sprites and image sheets but have no idea how to get them into my app! I’m not here just to get somebody to do it for me as I think thats cheating and I won’t learn anything, but just a point in the right direction would be much appreciated.

Thanks very much

#2

Though I’ve been here a while and even contributed tutorials, I’ve still no idea how to use a sprite sheet. The way I would do it is either to look up sprite sheets in the API documentation (and blog tutorials) or just use 5 images. The image files go in your code directory and you use the display.newImage() call to load them.

#3

Hi Horace, thanks for your reply, I can’t just load the image as it needs to kind of look a bit interactive, light up one by one if you know what I mean.

I’ll look up a blog tutorial, I’m sure theres one somewhere!

Thanks

#4

You can have the image change tint to give it the effect of lighting up

#5

Maybe search on here for a health bar example that would be similar to what you need

#6

health bar! thats exactly what I want it to look like! perfect, thank you!

#7

Welcome
Sorry couldn’t provide link I’m driving right now

#8

ha ha no worries, thanks

#9

Though I’ve been here a while and even contributed tutorials, I’ve still no idea how to use a sprite sheet. The way I would do it is either to look up sprite sheets in the API documentation (and blog tutorials) or just use 5 images. The image files go in your code directory and you use the display.newImage() call to load them.

#10

Hi Horace, thanks for your reply, I can’t just load the image as it needs to kind of look a bit interactive, light up one by one if you know what I mean.

I’ll look up a blog tutorial, I’m sure theres one somewhere!

Thanks

#11

You can have the image change tint to give it the effect of lighting up

#12

Maybe search on here for a health bar example that would be similar to what you need

#13

health bar! thats exactly what I want it to look like! perfect, thank you!

#14

Welcome
Sorry couldn’t provide link I’m driving right now

#15

ha ha no worries, thanks