What is getID() in appstates in jme3.3.0?

[yn97]

what is getId() method in appstate that I must implement it?
what value have to return?

[mitm]

AppState now needs an Id?

Then something else is pulling in a newer version. Run gradle dependencies to see what. Also, this is an indicator that you are implementing the AppState interface directly instead of subclassing one of the base classes. At best, this means you will be tweaking your classes every time we update the interface… at worst, it means your app states are actually not handling enabled state correctly, etc… which is tricky enough to get right that even the BulletAppState was messed up (and still is t…

[pspeed]

This question was just asked on discord and I said:

Whatever you want. But you should really be extending a base class for your app states. Either AbstractAppState or BaseAppState (the latter is preferred in general because it does more helpful things).

It’s for looking up your app state by ID if you want to later.

It’s also described in the javadoc:
https://javadoc.jmonkeyengine.org/v3.3.0-stable/com/jme3/app/state/AppState.html#getId--

(Note: the forum is still pointing to really old javadoc in its javadoc link.)

[Darkchaos]

@pspeed

(Note: the forum is still pointing to really old javadoc in its javadoc link.)

@jayfella

[jayfella]

It points to a page where you choose the version. What address would you like me to point it to?

[mitm]

Its good as is.

[pspeed]

This link:

Points to 3.x

[mitm]

Is that the old theme?

[pspeed]

Mmm… could be. I never switched to anything new. So maybe it’s just me then.

[sailsman63]

@mitm

Is that the old theme?

Just checked. That is *Definitely" the old theme. Apparently, it has some sort of hard-coded header that points to the 3.x javadoc.

[Darkchaos]

Since the new theme has become the standard, I guess paul kept the old theme.
Probably because he once said that he likes having links more than collapsible menus

[jayfella]

I’ve fixed the “old” theme link. You might have to CTRL+R or F5 or something for it to take effect.

[pspeed]

Works. Thanks for supporting my curmudgeonly demeanor.

[asser_fahrenholz]

@pspeed

It’s for looking up your app state by ID if you want to later.

Stupid follow up question - what is an example of use cases for this? i’ve just updated to 3.3.0 and just di a a “return ‘classname’” sort of thing - but i dont know how it could be used

[Ali_RS]

@asser_fahrenholz

what is an example of use cases for this?

@pspeed

The idea here is to be able to lookup AppStates by ID instead of just class. Useful when you have something like a ViewPortState and want to get the “rootNode” viewport versus the “guiNode” viewport, for example.

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[asser_fahrenholz]

Thanks you