Libgdx create sequence action programmatically

Question

In my libGDX application I have an actor which needs to create actions programmatically.

At the minute I am adding moveBy actions with incrementing delays in order to get the desired effect but this is very inefficient. Something like below;

actor.addAction(sequence(delay(i * DELAY), moveBy(50, 50));

If possible I would like to programmatically create one single sequence action and add moveBy actions to it as needed. Then I could just invoke a single action without having to continually add actions which is very unresourceful.

I have checked the documentation and could not find anything specific to my particular need.

I was thinking something along the lines of (pseudo code);

addPath(Vector2 path) {

    paths.add(path);
}

invokePathAction() {

    Action sequence = sequence();
    for all paths
        sequence.add(moveBy(path.x, path.y, TIME));

    addAction(sequence);
}

Is something like this possible with libGDX?

Answer 1

Of course - there is addAction method in the SequenceAction class

    MoveToAction action1 = new MoveToAction();
    action1.setPosition(0, 0);
    action1.setDuration(2);

    MoveToAction action2 = new MoveToAction();
    action2.setPosition(-500, 0);
    action2.setDuration(2);

    ...

    SequenceAction sequence = new SequenceAction();

    sequence.addAction(action1);
    sequence.addAction(action2);

    ...

    actor.addAction(sequence);

if you want to clear all actions and have "empty" sequence again you can call

    sequence.reset();