Lightweight Readme:
Birde Engine is designed for making HTML5/Canvas applications easier to produce using easy methods that should already be familiar to JQuery users.
I'll be populating the /examples folder as time goes on, but here's a summary:
Every active object in Birde is called an Actor - Actors can hold attributes, have methods bound to them, trigger events, catch events, etc.
Actors are manipulated through ActorGroups returned by using CSS-style selectors (much like JQuery). Since Actors have IDs and can hold multiple classes, the syntax might be very familiar:
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B("#test0")returns an ActorGroup containing one Actor with the ID of "test0".
B(".testClass")returns objects that have the class "testClass".
B(".testClass .otherClass")returns objects that have both classes.
B(".testClass, .otherClass")returns objects that have either class or both classes. (any number of selectors can be separated by commas and the end result will be combined)
B("#test0 > .testClass")returns only Actors of class "testClass" that are direct descendents of "#test0".
B(".testClass[someAttribute]")returns "testClass" objects that have "someAttribute" defined, regardless of value.
B(".testClass[x=200]")gets all Actors of class "testClass" that have the attribute "x" set to "200".
B() or B("*")returns the entire scenegraph.
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Operations can be performed on any selector and be applied to everything inside it. For example:
B(".testClass").attr("x", 200);will move all instances of "testClass" to "x = 200".
Birde also supports method chaining for methods that don't return an explicit value:
B(".testClass")
.attr("x", 200)
.find(".otherClass")
.bind("step", function()
{
// called on the step event
});Notes:
- Runs like shit in Safari on Windows. Hasn't been tested on OSX Safari yet. It probably works better there because the windows version has to default to setTimeout for the game loop and OSX Safari 6 supports requestAnimationFrame.