It's not kosher to set a sprite's location until after it is fully

constructed. The reason being that derived classes want to override things
like updateRenderOrigin() which should be called every time the sprite's
location is set, but if we do it in the base class constructor, a derived
class's updateRenderOrigin() will be called before the derived class's
constructor has been called. This is not good. Neither was the existing
code which simply half-assed a location change by updating the sprite's
origin position but not calling updateRenderOrigin(), leaving things
generally confuzzled.


git-svn-id: svn+ssh://src.earth.threerings.net/narya/trunk@1559 542714f4-19e9-0310-aa3c-eee0fc999fb1

src/java/com/threerings/media/sprite/Sprite.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 //
-// $Id: Sprite.java,v 1.49 2002/06/20 21:42:53 mdb Exp $
+// $Id: Sprite.java,v 1.50 2002/07/08 21:15:35 mdb Exp $
 
 package com.threerings.media.sprite;
 
@@ -24,24 +24,15 @@ public abstract class Sprite
     implements DirectionCodes, Pathable
 {
     /**
-     * Constructs a sprite with a default initial location of <code>(0,
-     * 0)</code>.
+     * Constructs a sprite with an initially invalid location. Because
+     * sprite derived classes generally want to get in on the business
+     * when a sprite's location is set, it is not safe to do so in the
+     * constructor because their derived methods will be called before
+     * their constructor has been called. Thus a sprite should be fully
+     * constructed and <em>then</em> its location should be set.
      */
     public Sprite ()
     {
-        this(0, 0);
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Constructs a sprite initially positioned at the specified location.
-     *
-     * @param x the sprite x-position in pixels.
-     * @param y the sprite y-position in pixels.
-     */
-    public Sprite (int x, int y)
-    {
-        _ox = x;
-        _oy = y;
     }
 
     /**
@@ -430,7 +421,7 @@ public abstract class Sprite
      * sprite positions itself via a hotspot that is not the upper left
      * coordinate of the sprite's bounds, the offset to the hotspot should
      * be maintained in {@link #_oxoff} and {@link #_oyoff}. */
-    protected int _ox, _oy;
+    protected int _ox = Integer.MIN_VALUE, _oy = Integer.MIN_VALUE;
 
     /** The offsets from our upper left coordinate to our origin (or hot
      * spot). Derived classes will need to update these values if the