Infinite Skies Banner

Create star at regular intervals at a random position on the canvas. When stars are created, they will fade in, increasing in size and opacity, and then fade out, decreasing in size and opacity. After fading out the stars will be deleted.

CanvasController

Contains main loop and objects that manipulate the canvas. The controller object was created to separate the main loop from the details of drawable objects and how they are manipulated. Personally, I find inner objects to be ideal for creating new levels of abstraction and maintaining a clean and workable base of objects. When objects contain too much functionality I find it difficult to read and navigate through the source code.

CONTAINS:

-          Controller

INIT

-          Set up canvas and context for drawing

-          Create Controller that will manipulate all objects

-          Set frame rate

Main Loop

-          Update Controller

-          Draw all objects contained within Controller

Controller

Contains and coordinates all objects.

CONTAINS:

-          BgStar

-          BgStarController

INIT

-          Create new ImgCache containing all images that will be used on the banner

• *** When images have completed loading, the main loop begins ***

-          Create a list starTypes

-          Create associative array objects to store objects

-          Create BgStarController

UPDATE (Function is called in the main loop)

-          Update objects

-          Garbage Collection

Draw (Function is called in the main loop)

-          Draw Background

-          Draw all objects