I, frankly, cannot be bothered by animated GIF images.
My experiments over the last 5-6 with a series of images used as the
*backGroundPattern*
of a graphic object has shown that if one animated at 25 images per second
(and this is what I might term the "Mickey Mouse rate" as it was
probably worked out
by Disney and/or his contemporaries) it looks like movement and does not
*jerk*
unless the images have been badly prepared.
That is, of course, only on desktop machines as I have only dipped my toes
very tentatively into mobile devices.
What is the ultimate difference for the end-user (i.e. the person who is
watching an animation)
between that sort of animation and what Brahmanathaswami means by Smooth
Scrolling?
The only real downside of flashing a series of images with a graphic
object frame
(that I am aware of) is in terms of physical storage (a lot of images
stored off-screen)
Richmond.
On 3.12.19 4:50, Tom Glod via use-livecode wrote:
You are completely right.
I just quoted a job...and knowing that the customer is going to ask me
"where is the smooth scrolling?"..... i skipped over livecode entirely and
quoted it using flutter....knowing I have no explanation or chance to give
the customer the experience they expect.
Your point exactly.
On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 9:32 PM Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
@ richard
I love LiveCode, use it every day, probably till the day I die, if I not
meditating, singing or swinging kettle bells, and have invested in every
offer presented by Kevin since you "turned me on Metacard" when I used
Supercard and was looking for bigger solutions, and even bought into
Revolution before it signed the agreement with Scott Raney -- I think that
was circa 1990 when you sent that email. And now I have business license
"for life" and I have a lot of respect for the team and what they try to
do on some many platforms
Having said that, I have been ranting on and off the past ten years, about
the Achilles Heel which is the "busted ankle" in Livecode. Simply this:
Smooth Motion Graphics.
"We shouldn't be scripting scrollers,"
is merely a "symptom" of a larger problem/gap/haitus in vision for the
future.
Now you and I and plenty of old timers know that, e.g. the "my app" could
not be duplicated by some other language or "HTML5" without spending 10
times the $ and time. I've been told that
"Oh sure we could do that on "React/Elm/[or any other language]"
(SivaSiva app) but... uh, we could not make that Word Puzzle thing you did,
and that Module (stack) you made would take five time the money and effort
work. But, ours will look so professional!"
So why will "The Other Thing" look "So Professional?"
Simple: scrolling, easing, bouncing, smooth scrolling, ken burns effects
and cool transitions.
I am not talking "animation" perse. Just the above. And scrolling is at
ground zero of these "effects" . It one thing to know, after 20 years of
HTML, web work, PHP, Javascript, that Livecode "will be the best tool for
this project in order to bring it to completion in 1/5 the time"
It's totally another thing for LC to stand alongside other languages to be
tested by newbies who are
a) content producers want to develop apps - photoshop, illustration,
Sketch expert...-- huge market there, but they have high production
values, expectations on the "look/feel" of the first card they make. Much
of which could be easily fix by tweaking the IDE.
b) a complete newbie e.g 17-year old whose been using a phone for three
years, and the app he sees "do cool stuff" but he can't make his LC app
"do cool stuff"
c) old school programmer who is tired of the horrible world of JS, PHP,
C++ and wants to have "fun" building solutions.
All three markets have no idea what LC can do. They test drive it, and the
Achilles Heel kicks in: nothing appears to "work smoothly" (we can't even
run an animated GIF in LC while doing any else on the phone) and they are
on to other languages.
Kevin said in an interview in California, that he wanted LiveCode to be in
the top ten languages... until we fix the Achilles Heel in the "look and
feel of what you produce" in Livecode, it will never happen. For every 50
who register for a trial, I really wonder how many actually "sign up",
maybe 1-3? They are who see the potential for doing "in house tools/behind
the scenes software" that don't really care how it looks...
I hope I am wrong...or wish that in 2 years, I will be "wrong"
BR
We shouldn't be scripting scrollers.
If the control we placed on the card scrolls, it should scroll. Doesn't
matter if it's Mac or Windows or Linux. Shouldn't matter if it's iOS or
Android.
Manually typing an interaction overlay is bizarre savagery better left
for those with a typing fetish than developers who want to be productive
using visual development tools like LiveCode.
That this has not been addressed in the product -- even as so many of us
have scripted libraries to take care of this automatically in script --
has always been concerning.
And as we approach the 10th anniversary of iPhone, that this has never
been taken care of, or even put on a road map, the concern has grown.
Vision, anyone?
#UserExperience
#EmbraceVisualProgramming
#xTalksRule
#SomeoneHasToSayIt
#WhyIsNoOneSayingIt
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