Hi
I am very new to Haxe and I am trying to create a simple scene manager for openfl.
I have created a gist of what I have tried.
I am struggling with understanding how can I dynamically create the scenes and initialize their classses.
Here’s three ways you could do instances:
1.) Use a string name and initialize the scenes in advance
public static var scenes = new Map<String, Scene>();
...
scenes["title"] = new TitleScene();
scenes["logo"] = new LogoScene();
...
function showScene(sceneName:String):Void
{
currentScene = scenes[sceneName];
...
}
2.) You could use the class constructors as an argument and call them directly
showScene(TitleScene.new);
...
function showScene(constructor:Void->Void)
{
currentScene = constructor();
...
}
3.) You could go the dynamic route and dynamically instantiate the class
showScene(TitleScene);
...
function showScene(scene:Class<Dynamic>):Void
{
currentScene = Type.createInstance(scene, []);
...
}
https://api.haxe.org/Type.html#createInstance
4.) You could even just pass an instance
showScene(new IntroScene());
...
function showScene(scene:Scene):Void
{
currentScene = scene;
...
}
Personally I’ve used the string approach the most so that I’m not creating/destroying instances to translate through scenes but otherwise I would probably pass an instance rather than the class. That gives you more flexibility to re-use instances or to have constructor arguments if you want.
There’s no one way to do it 
Thanks. This is very helpful!