Cocos2d-x turn based RPG game: run characters' attack animation in sequence - cocos2d-x

Question

I am building a turn-based RPG game with Cocos2d-x 3.3final. I have four sprites, say sprite1, sprite2, sprite3 and sprite4. Each has an associated attack animation(class type Animate*), say sprite1attack, sprite2attack, sprite3attack, sprite4attack.
During the battle, every turn the attack order of these characters changes according to user's operation. In my code, I would like to have a menu callback function that could run the four character's attack animation in sequence when the user clicks its associated button:
void onStart(){
}
If I coded it like:
void onStart(){
sprite1->runAction(sprite1attack);
sprite2->runAction(sprite2attack);
sprite3->runAction(sprite3attack);
sprite4->runAction(sprite4attack);
}
The four animations would run all together.
Are there any good design pattern that can run the sprites' animation in any user wanted sequence?
It's OK to add variables, like vector<int> attackOrder.

Answer 1

When you want to put Some Actions ( from TargetedAction) in sequence, you will need to use TargetedAction.
For example in your case you need something like this:
auto sequnecedAction = Sequence::create(
TargetedAction::create(sprite1,sprite1attackAnimation),
TargetedAction::create(sprite2,sprite2attackAnimation), nullptr);
sprite1->runAction(sequnecedAction);