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olu adesina
23,007 Pointshow is the this.nowPlayingIndex= 0; working in the playlist consturctor function with the this is songs array
function Playlist() {
this.songs=[];
this.nowPlayingIndex= 0;
}
Playlist.prototype.add = function(song) {
this.songs.push(song);
};
Playlist.prototype.play = function() {
var currentSong= this.songs[this.nowPlayingIndex];
currentSong.play();
};
Playlist.prototype.stop = function(){
var currentSong= this.songs[this.nowPlayingIndex];
currentSong.stop();
};
Playlist.prototype.next = function() {
this.stop();
this.nowPlayingIndex++;
if(this.nowPlayingIndex===this.songs.length){
this.nowPlayingIndex=0;
}
this.play();
};
Playlist.prototype.renderInElement = function() {
};
2 Answers
Umy Ikem
21,383 Pointsthe nowPlayingIndex is an integer so it can be used as an index of an array to get an item in the array. Let's say you have an array
var exampleArray = [];
exampleArray[nowPlayingIndex];
//nowPlayingIndex is an integer - 0,1,2,3...exampleArray[2]
nowPlayingIndex is used to get the currently playing song in the songs array
Akash Sharma
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 14,147 PointsWhen you first start using the PlayList object functions that we made like play, stop and next the isNowPlaying value will take 0 (as defined from the constructor function) and so the first song object you called add on (from PlayList function/prototype) will be the song all these functions act upon.