Scott - I'm experimenting with this now and not having a whole lot of
success, mainly due to the limitation you've mentioned here. I was
hoping I could hide and show images instead of going from card to card.
That might leave a field on screen independent of the transition, but I
was wrong. You're right. You can't use a built-in motion transition
and keep an object on the card independent of it. I'm not hopeful about
the browser idea on mobile so I have to give this some thought. I guess
I can experiment with the move command. Wouldn't it be nice if I could
just display a stack as a floating palette on mobile!
On 7/28/15 5:59 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:
If you're planning to hide the stationary objects during the transition,
that would work, but otherwise, I don't think so. You can't use a
built-in motion transition and keep objects (real or virtual) in a fixed
location on the card.
One thing that came to mind as another option is the updated browser
control. I *think* the new version might allow layering with other
LiveCode objects, but I'm not sure. If yes, then that could be an option
since you could place a browser on the first layer of the card to display
background images, and use Javascript to do some nice transitions behind
objects in the foreground. How well this would work on mobile, if it does
at all, I have no idea.
Regards,
Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, UX/UI Design
On 7/28/15, 9:37 AM, "Ray" <r...@linkit.com> wrote:
I'm currently using this:
lock screen for visual effect
go next card
unlock screen with visual effect push right fast
Works great, but it's the whole card. I'd like to maintain a few
transparent fields and images in a fixed way in front of this so the
whole transition is happening behind these objects, much like a
'heads-up' in a video game which shows how much ammunition you have left.
I, too, doubt the move command would work well on under-powered mobile
devices. I'm kind of leaning toward something like this:
hide the objects I want to remain stationary and get a snapshot of
the both the current and destination cards
re-show the objects I want to remain stationary
lock screen for visual effect
hide the snapshot of the current card, show the snapshot of the
destination card
unlock screen with visual effect push right fast
copy the objects I want to remain stationary to the destination card
go to the destination card
delete both snapshots
What do you think?
On 7/28/15 5:14 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:
I think I see what you're trying to do, and if I understand correctly,
you
can't do it using built-intransitions. You can restrict transitions
WITHIN a specified rect or object, but not outside (in this case, the
background).
What transition are you using -- one of the motion-based options like
push
or scroll? If yes, one solution could be to use the move command or
something like AnimationEngine to physically move background groups left
and right (or up and down). But since we're talking about the entire
width/height of the card, that might be a lot of screen to update, which
could bog down on an underpowered device.
Regards,
Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, UX/UI Design
On 7/28/15, 9:01 AM, "Ray" <r...@linkit.com> wrote:
Scott - the main issue is the second one you've mentioned, below,
although it would be more accurate to say 'using transitions behind a
fixed foreground'. I'd like for the fixed foreground to be
transparent,
hence the introduction of the custom window shape idea.
Dr. Hawkins also suggested the groups idea which I can try, although
now
that I think about it that might be a little complicated since it's my
users, not me, who populate each card with objects. I'm also
considering snapshots of the entire screen and transitioning from one
PNG to the other while maintaining the same fixed group of objects in
the foreground.
On 7/28/15 4:52 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:
What's the main issue you're trying to solve? A custom window shape
or
using transitions in front of a fixed background?
AFAIK, you can't use the windowShape property on mobile stacks. But
you
might achieve the effect of one stack in front of another by moving
your
card-based content into groups, and showing/hiding groups on a single
card
(with the card acting as the background stack). You can apply the
same
transitions used when navigating between cards to showing/hiding
groups.
However, the above might not be necessary. You also might be able to
change your background stack into a background object that appears
behind
all cards in your foreground stack.
Regards,
Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, UX/UI Design
On 7/28/15, 7:51 AM, "Ray" <r...@linkit.com> wrote:
As far as I know, it's not possible to display two stacks
simultaneously
on either Android or iOS. Does anybody have any suggestions for a
work
around to this?
In my case I have a stack with multiple cards which transition with
visual effects as users go from card to card. I'd like to keep this
look while at the same time displaying in front of it another, fixed,
video game style 'heads-up' stack on screen using the window mask
property.
Thanks in advance for any ideas!
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