I hadn’t either, but I suspected there was a way to have more mousestilldown
events, and idlerate is mentioned in the mousestilldown dictionary entry.
> On Apr 23, 2016, at 11:07 AM, RM <richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey, "You're way ahead of me baby!" as I have never even heard of "idleRate"
> before.
>
> Richmond.
>
> On 23.04.2016 15:23, Colin Holgate wrote:
>> I only put the wait in there because I thought it was needed, but it isn’t.
>> Using mousetilldown is better, and the solution to the smooth animation
>> while dragging is to set the idlerate to a lower number.
>>
>> local p
>> on mouseDown
>> set the idlerate to 50
>> put 1 into p
>> grab me
>> do animashun
>> end mouseDown
>>
>> on mouseStillDown
>> do animashun
>> end mouseStillDown
>>
>> on animashun
>> put ("p"&p)&".png" into theimage
>> set the backGroundPattern of graphic "G1" to the id of image theimage
>> put p + 1 into p
>> if p > 15 then put 1 into p
>> end animashun
>>
>>
>>> On Apr 22, 2016, at 11:46 PM, J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> "Without waiting" applies only to the "move" command. I don't have your
>>> original handler, but Colin's below doesn't use "move" so it wouldn't apply
>>> here. Normally during a move the handler pauses until the move completes.
>>> If you add "without waiting" the rest of the handler runs immediately while
>>> the move continues independently. If your original handler uses "move" then
>>> adding "without waiting" might help.
>>>
>>> I wonder if Colin's animation would work acceptably if the "wait 1" was
>>> changed to "wait 1 millisecond" though.
>>>
>>> On 4/22/2016 2:33 PM, RM wrote:
>>>> At this point it would be marvellous if somebody could chime in with a
>>>> fairly sensible
>>>> explanation of the role of "*without waiting*" and whether is would
>>>> *declunk* the mismatch-thing
>>>> that seems to be going on between *dragging* and *animating*.
>>>>
>>>> Certainly, *Director* (at least in 1999) did not have that sort of problem.
>>>>
>>>> Richmond.
>>>>
>>>> On 22.04.2016 21:37, Colin Holgate wrote:
>>>>> This has the advantage of smooth dragging, but the disadvantage of
>>>>> less smooth animation:
>>>>>
>>>>> local p
>>>>>
>>>>> on mouseDown
>>>>>
>>>>> put 1 into p
>>>>>
>>>>> grab me
>>>>>
>>>>> do animashun
>>>>>
>>>>> end mouseDown
>>>>>
>>>>> on mouseMove
>>>>>
>>>>> do animashun
>>>>>
>>>>> end mouseMove
>>>>>
>>>>> on animashun
>>>>>
>>>>> set the backGroundPattern of graphic "G1" to the id of image
>>>>> ("p"&p&".png")
>>>>>
>>>>> wait 1 with messages
>>>>>
>>>>> put p + 1 into p
>>>>>
>>>>> if p > 15 then put 1 into p
>>>>>
>>>>> end animashun
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> About Director, it can of course do this sort of animation monthly,
>>>>> but also it can be used as an XTalk language.
>>>>>
>>>>>
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