RE: Limiting scope of Visual Effect command

2012-02-17 Thread tbodine
Thanks Paul and John. Those suggestions were very helpful! -- Tom Bodine -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Limiting-scope-of-Visual-Effect-command-tp4398554p4398634.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com

RE: Limiting scope of Visual Effect command

2012-02-17 Thread John Dixon
Have a read at p.12 of the 5.0.2 release notes regarding the changes made for displaying visual effects. I would image that you are going to be interested in :- lock screen for visual effect [in rect] > Can the visual effect command apply the effect just to the area of the > screen th

Re: Limiting scope of Visual Effect command

2012-02-17 Thread Paul Hibbert
rote: > Hi all. > > Can the visual effect command apply the effect just to the area of the > screen that has changed during a lock screen operation? > > I want to reveal the answer to a question by changing the text of a button > label, then make it appear to the user that the ans

Limiting scope of Visual Effect command

2012-02-17 Thread tbodine
Hi all. Can the visual effect command apply the effect just to the area of the screen that has changed during a lock screen operation? I want to reveal the answer to a question by changing the text of a button label, then make it appear to the user that the answer has flipped up. Right now, the

Re: Visual Effect command

2011-06-27 Thread Pete
Thanks Ken, I'll give it a try. Always leery of trying anything out of the ordinary with modal windows since LC hangs up very easily on any problems with them! I do actually need a modal window though so not sure if this will do it or not. I guess the closest way I can describe this is for the m

Re: Visual Effect command

2011-06-27 Thread Ken Ray
> Looks like the show and hide commands allow you to name a stack, but there's > no way to specify that the stack should be modal, which is what I need. I > thought about trying "go invisible stackname as modal" followed by the show > command but I think the script would stop execution at the go c

Re: Visual Effect command

2011-06-27 Thread Pete
Looks like the show and hide commands allow you to name a stack, but there's no way to specify that the stack should be modal, which is what I need. I thought about trying "go invisible stackname as modal" followed by the show command but I think the script would stop execution at the go command s

Re: Visual Effect command

2011-06-27 Thread Scott Rossi
One way to restrict a visual effect to a portion of the screen is to use the effect with hide/show: show grp 1 with visual push down hide grp 1 with visual push up However, this will not work with overlapping objects. You would have to make sure the affected object can be displayed independent

Re: Visual Effect command

2011-06-27 Thread Shao Sean
If the new window is non-resizable you could group all the controls together and then do a loop to set the height of the new window and move the group.. I'd recommend locking the screen so you can set the topLeft of the new window and not have it bouncing all over the screen.. on mouseUp

Visual Effect command

2011-06-27 Thread Pete
I would like to have a modal stack come into view by "sliding down" from behind a control on the calling form. I found the visual effects command but when I use that (with scroll down), all of the existing window scrolls down, not just the modal window. Seems to work the same for other types of v