starling-handbook-preview

public function advanceTime(passedTime:Number):void
{
_bird.advanceTime(passedTime);
}
The advanceTime method moves the playhead forward by the given time. Thus, we want this method
to be called once per frame, and the time parameter needs to contain the time passed since the
previous frame. Sounds like a job for our Game class, right? Open it up and add the following code:
public function start(assets:AssetManager):void
{
/* ... */
}
addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, onEnterFrame);
private function onEnterFrame(event:Event, passedTime:Number):void
{
_world.advanceTime(passedTime);
}
This code introduces a concept that hasn’t been mentioned before: events. We will look into that
topic in detail a little later, but that code should be rather intuitive. We listen to an ENTER_FRAME
-event, which is a standard event that’s dispatched once per frame to every display object. As a
result, the method onEnterFrame (the event handler) will be called repeatedly.
The event handler also contains an argument called passedTime, which is just what we need in the
advanceTime method we just defined on World.
Which means that everything is in place to get that bird flapping! Compile and run the code now to
see it in action.
Scrolling
Right now, the bird is flying in empty space. We will now add some grassland below to give the
player some sense of the bird’s height and movement. Let’s start with the following additions to the
World class:
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