Game Programming using Qt 5 Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

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A number of images were prepared following a common naming pattern containing a number. All the images have the same size. This allows us to replace one image with another just by changing the value of the source property to point to a different image. To make it easier, we introduced a property called the currentFrame element that contains the index of the image to be displayed. We used the currentFrame element in a string, forming an expression bound to the source element of the image. To make substituting frames easy, a NumberAnimation element was declared to modify the values of the currentFrame element in a loop from 1 to the number of animation frames available (represented by the frameCount property) so that each ...