Thanks Chris I am embarrassed to say that my card-to-card effects are now working! I had a completely repeatable recipe to show they won't working yesterday, but a restart of my machine and a test immediately afterwards (both on the simulator and the iPad itself) showed the effects working fine. Since I hadn't changed the code of my app between the two tests, I can only think that I somehow messed up the IDE with other stuff I did in the previous sessions. If I find out exactly how to cause the problem, I will report it. Meanwhile thanks for the advice.
Right now I no longer want to do stack-to-stack transitions, but your advice on this will be stored away in the scrapbook for later use. Graham Back to the next problem - embedded sounds. On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:37:14 -0700, Chris Sheffield <cmsheffi...@me.com>wrote: > Graham, > > Not sure if you've ever found a solution for this problem, but I've got a > couple other suggestions that may help. > > First, if you're simply issuing a command like: > > visual effect "whatever" > go cd "someCard" > > then this should work just fine. I've found that if something like this is > not working, it's usually because I have some kind of error that's occurring > in the script (usually preOpenCard) of the card I'm trying to go to. Nothing > to do in this case but debug and try to figure out what's going on. With that > said, I have actually found, and I believe others have as well, that you get > a very slight performance boost if you use the "lock screen for visual > effect" command instead of the above method. So something like: > > lock screen for visual effect > go cd "someCard" > unlock screen with visual effect "whatever" > > So you might give that a try and see what happens. As I said, it's not > necessary to do it this way, and the first method should work just fine. > > If I remember correctly, your original post also mentioned using a visual > effect when moving to different stacks. If not, disregard the following. I've > found a way that works well for me. There are probably others. I was also > having issues with this at one point, and I found this worked just fine. > Something like: > > visual effect "whatever" > go cd "someCard" of stack "theToStack" > close stack "theFromStack" > > It seems to be necessary to specify a card, even if there's only one, when > using the go command, otherwise the visual effect doesn't happen. And the > same goes for the close stack command. It's supposedly not necessary to do > that, as in iOS only one stack is open at a time, but, once again, I found > that the effect did not work correctly if I didn't issue that command. > > Hope some of this helps. Once again, if you find that visual effects are not > happening like they should, but the code is correct and you *are* moving to > the desired card, most likely it's a script error somewhere. > > Chris > > > -- > Chris Sheffield > Read Naturally, Inc. > www.readnaturally.com _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
