class Accelerometer

package openfl.sensors

extends EventDispatcher

Available on all platforms

The Accelerometer class dispatches events based on activity detected by the device's motion sensor. This data represents the device's location or movement along a 3-dimensional axis. When the device moves, the sensor detects this movement and returns acceleration data. The Accelerometer class provides methods to query whether or not accelerometer is supported, and also to set the rate at which acceleration events are dispatched.

Note: Use the Accelerometer.isSupported property to test the runtime environment for the ability to use this feature. While the Accelerometer class and its members are accessible to the Runtime Versions listed for each API entry, the current environment for the runtime determines the availability of this feature. For example, you can compile code using the Accelerometer class properties for Flash Player 10.1, but you need to use the Accelerometer.isSupported property to test for the availability of the Accelerometer feature in the current deployment environment for the Flash Player runtime. If Accelerometer.isSupported is true at runtime, then Accelerometer support currently exists.

AIR profile support: This feature is supported only on mobile devices. It is not supported on desktop or AIR for TV devices. See AIR Profile Support for more information regarding API support across multiple profiles.

@event status Dispatched when an accelerometer changes its status.

          **Note:** On some devices, the accelerometer is always
          available. On such devices, an Accelerometer object never
          dispatches a `status` event.

@event update The update event is dispatched in response to

          updates from the accelerometer sensor. The event is
          dispatched in the following circumstances:

          
          
           * When a new listener function is attached through
          `addEventListener()`, this event is delivered once
          to all the registered listeners for providing the current
          value of the accelerometer.
           * Whenever accelerometer updates are obtained from the
          platform at device determined intervals.
           * Whenever the application misses a change in the
          accelerometer(for example, the runtime is resuming after
          being idle).

Constructor

new ()

Creates a new Accelerometer instance.

Variables

read onlymuted:Bool

Specifies whether the user has denied access to the accelerometer (true) or allowed access(false). When this value changes, a status event is dispatched.

Methods

setRequestedUpdateInterval (interval:Int):Void

The setRequestedUpdateInterval method is used to set the desired time interval for updates. The time interval is measured in milliseconds. The update interval is only used as a hint to conserve the battery power. The actual time between acceleration updates may be greater or lesser than this value. Any change in the update interval affects all registered listeners. You can use the Accelerometer class without calling the setRequestedUpdateInterval() method. In this case, the application receives updates based on the device's default interval.

Parameters:

interval

The requested update interval. If interval is set to 0, then the minimum supported update interval is used.

Throws:

ArgumentError

The specified interval is less than zero.

Static variables

staticread onlywrite onlyisSupported:Bool

The isSupported property is set to true if the accelerometer sensor is available on the device, otherwise it is set to false.

Inherited Variables

Inherited Methods

Defined by EventDispatcher

addEventListener (type:String, listener:Dynamic ‑> Void, useCapture:Bool = false, priority:Int = 0, useWeakReference:Bool = false):Void

Registers an event listener object with an EventDispatcher object so that the listener receives notification of an event. You can register event listeners on all nodes in the display list for a specific type of event, phase, and priority.

After you successfully register an event listener, you cannot change its priority through additional calls to addEventListener(). To change a listener's priority, you must first call removeListener(). Then you can register the listener again with the new priority level.

Keep in mind that after the listener is registered, subsequent calls to addEventListener() with a different type or useCapture value result in the creation of a separate listener registration. For example, if you first register a listener with useCapture set to true, it listens only during the capture phase. If you call addEventListener() again using the same listener object, but with useCapture set to false, you have two separate listeners: one that listens during the capture phase and another that listens during the target and bubbling phases.

You cannot register an event listener for only the target phase or the bubbling phase. Those phases are coupled during registration because bubbling applies only to the ancestors of the target node.

If you no longer need an event listener, remove it by calling removeEventListener(), or memory problems could result. Event listeners are not automatically removed from memory because the garbage collector does not remove the listener as long as the dispatching object exists(unless the useWeakReference parameter is set to true).

Copying an EventDispatcher instance does not copy the event listeners attached to it.(If your newly created node needs an event listener, you must attach the listener after creating the node.) However, if you move an EventDispatcher instance, the event listeners attached to it move along with it.

If the event listener is being registered on a node while an event is being processed on this node, the event listener is not triggered during the current phase but can be triggered during a later phase in the event flow, such as the bubbling phase.

If an event listener is removed from a node while an event is being processed on the node, it is still triggered by the current actions. After it is removed, the event listener is never invoked again(unless registered again for future processing).

Parameters:

type

The type of event.

useCapture

Determines whether the listener works in the capture phase or the target and bubbling phases. If useCapture is set to true, the listener processes the event only during the capture phase and not in the target or bubbling phase. If useCapture is false, the listener processes the event only during the target or bubbling phase. To listen for the event in all three phases, call addEventListener twice, once with useCapture set to true, then again with useCapture set to false.

priority

The priority level of the event listener. The priority is designated by a signed 32-bit integer. The higher the number, the higher the priority. All listeners with priority n are processed before listeners of priority n-1. If two or more listeners share the same priority, they are processed in the order in which they were added. The default priority is 0.

useWeakReference

Determines whether the reference to the listener is strong or weak. A strong reference(the default) prevents your listener from being garbage-collected. A weak reference does not.

Class-level member functions are not subject to garbage collection, so you can set useWeakReference to true for class-level member functions without subjecting them to garbage collection. If you set useWeakReference to true for a listener that is a nested inner function, the function will be garbage-collected and no longer persistent. If you create references to the inner function(save it in another variable) then it is not garbage-collected and stays persistent.

Throws:

ArgumentError

The listener specified is not a function.

dispatchEvent (event:Event):Bool

Dispatches an event into the event flow. The event target is the EventDispatcher object upon which the dispatchEvent() method is called.

Parameters:

event

The Event object that is dispatched into the event flow. If the event is being redispatched, a clone of the event is created automatically. After an event is dispatched, its target property cannot be changed, so you must create a new copy of the event for redispatching to work.

Throws:

Error

The event dispatch recursion limit has been reached.

Returns:

A value of true if the event was successfully dispatched. A value of false indicates failure or that preventDefault() was called on the event.

hasEventListener (type:String):Bool

Checks whether the EventDispatcher object has any listeners registered for a specific type of event. This allows you to determine where an EventDispatcher object has altered handling of an event type in the event flow hierarchy. To determine whether a specific event type actually triggers an event listener, use willTrigger().

The difference between hasEventListener() and willTrigger() is that hasEventListener() examines only the object to which it belongs, whereas willTrigger() examines the entire event flow for the event specified by the type parameter.

When hasEventListener() is called from a LoaderInfo object, only the listeners that the caller can access are considered.

Parameters:

type

The type of event.

Returns:

A value of true if a listener of the specified type is registered; false otherwise.

removeEventListener (type:String, listener:Dynamic ‑> Void, useCapture:Bool = false):Void

Removes a listener from the EventDispatcher object. If there is no matching listener registered with the EventDispatcher object, a call to this method has no effect.

Parameters:

type

The type of event.

useCapture

Specifies whether the listener was registered for the capture phase or the target and bubbling phases. If the listener was registered for both the capture phase and the target and bubbling phases, two calls to removeEventListener() are required to remove both, one call with useCapture() set to true, and another call with useCapture() set to false.

toString ():String

willTrigger (type:String):Bool

Checks whether an event listener is registered with this EventDispatcher object or any of its ancestors for the specified event type. This method returns true if an event listener is triggered during any phase of the event flow when an event of the specified type is dispatched to this EventDispatcher object or any of its descendants.

The difference between the hasEventListener() and the willTrigger() methods is that hasEventListener() examines only the object to which it belongs, whereas the willTrigger() method examines the entire event flow for the event specified by the type parameter.

When willTrigger() is called from a LoaderInfo object, only the listeners that the caller can access are considered.

Parameters:

type

The type of event.

Returns:

A value of true if a listener of the specified type will be triggered; false otherwise.