You could also use a send loop and keep track of which image is currently
visible, switch to the next frame, loop again. And then use "the keysdown"
within the loop itself to check for the arrow keys. (As I did in the other
animation you asked about)
Off the top of my head, something like..
on animaSHun
-- sCounter would have been initialized to 1
switch sCounter
case 1
set the vis of img "M1" to true
set the vis of img "M4" to false
put 2 into sCounter
break
case 2
set the vis of img "M2" to true
set the vis of img "M1" to false
put 3 into sCounter
break
case 3
set the vis of img "M3" to true
set the vis of img "M2" to false
put 4 into sCounter
break
case 4
set the vis of img "M4" to true
set the vis of img "M3" to false
put 1 into sCounter
break
end switch
if the keysdown is not empty then
if "65361" is among the items of the keysdown then
-- the code for the left arrow key
end if
if "65363" is among the items of the keysdown then
-- the code for the right arrow key
end if
end if
send "animaSHun" to me in 4 ticks
end animaSHun
You could of course then break things into smaller chunks to make
management of code easier. (you can still do this, loop method doesn't
really matter, rather than send you could put a single wait with messages
in there for the same effect, then directly call the handler again)
on animaSHun
animateIt -- the hander to do the animaSHun
processKeys -- the handler to ... handle the keysdown
send "animaSHun" to me in 4 ticks
end animaSHun
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 5:52 AM, David Williams <dwilli...@livecode.com>
wrote:
> Disregard that - as soon as I hit send, my mail client fetched the other
> responses :)
>
>
> On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 12:46:45 +0100, David Williams <dwilli...@livecode.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi Richmond,
>>
>> The way to do this is to wait with messages - so 'wait 4 ticks' becomes
>> 'wait 4 ticks with messages'. This form of the command allows other
>> messages to be passed while it's executing, making it a non-blocking wait.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> -David
>>
>> On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 11:52:06 +0100, Richmond <richmondmathew...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> I am animating a series of images like this:
>>>
>>> on animaSHun
>>> set the vis of img "M1" to true
>>> set the vis of img "M4" to false
>>> wait 4 ticks
>>> set the vis of img "M2" to true
>>> set the vis of img "M1" to false
>>> wait 4 ticks
>>> set the vis of img "M3" to true
>>> set the vis of img "M2" to false
>>> wait 4 ticks
>>> set the vis of img "M4" to true
>>> set the vis of img "M3" to false
>>> wait 4 ticks
>>> animaSHun
>>> end animaSHun
>>>
>>> and there I was feeling proud of myself for having been "so" clever, BUT
>>> I was wrong . . .
>>>
>>> Now in the same cardScript I have an "on arrowKey" script to let me move
>>> the animation
>>> around the card with the arrow keys on my keyboard . . .
>>>
>>> But that "animaSHun" routine goes round and round (as, indeed, it
>>> should) and the arrowKeys
>>> are quite unable to "get a word in edgeways"; in fact the only way to
>>> stop the thing
>>> is by crashing LiveCode.
>>>
>>> I would be grateful if anyone could tell me how to get a word in
>>> edgeways while keeping the animation going.
>>>
>>> Yup: I know I could just use an animated GIF image . . . but, call me
>>> bloody-minded, I have my
>>> reasons for not using one.
>>>
>>> Richmond.
>>>
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