On 4/24/2014 10:46 AM, la...@significantplanet.org wrote: > I am putting up an overlay (image) over a field that I display for 1 second > and then, using a repeat statement and blendlevel, fade the image until it > becomes invisible again. > > The problem is that I'm using the wait command to do this and I can't do > anything else in the program for those 2 seconds. I have a vague > recollection that I could use pending messages or something, but I cannot > remember how to do that. > > If you know how, please help. > basic approach is: "send message in x seconds", so you do something like:
on displayImage -- put code to display image in place of this comment send "fadeImage" to me in 1 second end displayImage on fadeImage -- put code to fade the image 1 step towards invisibility in place of this comment if (not FullyInvisible) then send "fadeImage" to me in 10 milliseconds end fadeImage where "FullyInvisible" is a check for whether you have fully faded the image or not (true in you have, false if not) _______________________________________________ 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
