Sprites, Arrays, and Update

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I'm on Windows SDK.

Question:

  • I'm trying to animate my sprites, but I'm not sure how to hook into the sprite update effectivly. I know if I have one sprite, I can add a function for that sprite something like this works.
local x
x = gfx.sprite.new()
x:add()

function x.update()
  print("TEST")
end

However, if I do something like this, I'm not sure how do hook into that update.

local sprites = {}
    sprites[1] = gfx.sprite.new()
    sprites[1]:moveTo(275, 100)
    sprites[1]:setImage(spriteImage)
    sprites[1]:setZIndex(Layers.Layer2Middle)
sprites[1]:add()

I suppose I COULD just make them individual sprites, but I was hoping there was a way to get hold of that sprite in the array so I'll know when it gets updated.

Something I tried:
I did try doing this, and technically it did work, but the simulation locked up because it was to busy updating.

function gfx.sprite.update()
  print("This worked, but didn't")
end
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It looks like you just need to use function x:update() instead of function x.update() if everthing else is correct. You didn't show anything to the contrary, but note you must call these functions in your pd.update()

gfx.sprite.update()
pd.timer.updateTimers()