Re: hide with visual effect

2016-10-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/11/16 3:52 PM, Devin Asay wrote: On Oct 11, 2016, at 2:26 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Do you know if "very fast" is no longer "as fast as the machine will go"? That used to be the case. It’s not that any more. It is all relative to the effectRate property. Thanks, that's good to know.

Re: hide with visual effect

2016-10-11 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi Mike, This old stack provides an useful visual reference for every visual effect: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3834621/demoMC27_no_sounds.livecode Alejandro ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: hide with visual effect

2016-10-11 Thread Devin Asay
> On Oct 11, 2016, at 2:50 PM, Mike Kerner wrote: > > Devin, I should have mentioned this, but I made my dialog translucent, so > the scroll down effect won't look right since it causes the underlying card > to slide into view, when what I'm trying to get is the effect of the > overlay sliding o

Re: hide with visual effect

2016-10-11 Thread Devin Asay
> On Oct 11, 2016, at 2:26 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > Do you know if "very fast" is no longer "as fast as the machine will go"? > That used to be the case. It’s not that any more. It is all relative to the effectRate property. Here’s what the dictionary says: "By default, the effectRate p

Re: hide with visual effect

2016-10-11 Thread Mike Kerner
Devin, I should have mentioned this, but I made my dialog translucent, so the scroll down effect won't look right since it causes the underlying card to slide into view, when what I'm trying to get is the effect of the overlay sliding out of the way. If I was "pushing" the card out of view with th

Re: hide with visual effect

2016-10-11 Thread Mike Kerner
Wow, I learned something new. Yes, the effectRate affects "very fast", too On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 4:26 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > Do you know if "very fast" is no longer "as fast as the machine will go"? > That used to be the case. > > > On 10/11/16 2:16 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: > >> I believe

Re: hide with visual effect

2016-10-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
Do you know if "very fast" is no longer "as fast as the machine will go"? That used to be the case. On 10/11/16 2:16 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: I believe you already found your answer/s, but in addition to other suggestions posted, keep in mind the effectRate property, which allows much finer timi

Re: hide with visual effect

2016-10-11 Thread Scott Rossi
I believe you already found your answer/s, but in addition to other suggestions posted, keep in mind the effectRate property, which allows much finer timing control (as opposed to slow, fast, very fast, etc). I find that the default rate of 2000 is a bit slow by today’s standards, so cutting th

Re: hide with visual effect

2016-10-11 Thread Devin Asay
> On Oct 11, 2016, at 8:46 AM, Mike Kerner wrote: > > I am trying to give the user the illusion that a dialog is sliding into > view and out of view. The dialog is a rectangle graphic background, with > controls. Showing it is easy - show x with visual effect scroll up very > fast. When I wan

Re: hide with visual effect

2016-10-11 Thread Richmond
Possibly: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=28102 Richmond. On 11.10.2016 17:46, Mike Kerner wrote: I am trying to give the user the illusion that a dialog is sliding into view and out of view. The dialog is a rectangle graphic background, with controls. Showing it is easy - show

Re: hide with visual effect

2016-10-11 Thread Mike Kerner
wait - got it - to slide the graphic over the card show x with visual effect scroll up very fast #push up works, too to move it off screen hide x with visual effect reveal down very fast On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 10:46 AM, Mike Kerner wrote: > I am trying to give the user the illusion that a dialo