Bill,
I apparently completely misunderstood what you wanted to do.
here is a script that I hope is close to what you have in mind.
Please watch out for line breaks in the script due to text wrapping
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local sTurning = false
local sDegree, sAngleStep, sSizeOfText, sEndSizeOfText, sTextIncrease
on mouseUp
if sTurning = false then
put true into sTurning
put "This is Bills text" into tText
put 220 into sDegree -- change to start at different angle
put 3 into sAngleStep -- change to change speed
put 22 into sSizeOfText -- can be higher than sEndOfText ->
decreasing
put 40 into sEndSizeOfText -- set this to sSizeOfText to stop size
change
put (sEndSizeOfText - sSizeOfText)/((360-sDegree)/sAngleStep) into
sTextIncrease
lock screen
set the displayText of widget "turnText" to tText
set the turnAngle of widget "turnText" to sDegree
set the sizeOfText of widget "turnText" to sSizeOfText
unlock screen
send "showTheText" to me in 0 milliseconds
else
put false into sTurning
end if
end mouseUp
on showTheText
if sTurning then
if sDegree > 360 then
set the turnAngle of widget "turnText" to 360
set the sizeOfText of widget "turnText" to sEndSizeOfText
put false into sTurning
exit showTheText
end if
lock screen
set the turnAngle of widget "turnText" to sDegree
set the sizeOfText of widget "turnText" to trunc (sSizeOfText)
unlock screen
add sAngleStep to sDegree
add sTextIncrease to sSizeOfText
send showTheText to me in 20 milliseconds
end if
end showTheText
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change what is indicated in the comments to customize
Kind regards
Bernd
Wprothero wrote
> Bernd:
> What I was thinking was like a text fly-out. With your widget, it would
> just start from invisible and expand out from the center and stop without
> turning. Thinking of a presentation/slide show type system that would be
> more interesting that just text on a screen. What I would really love is
> one of those applications that shows the hand drawing on the screen.
> They’re pretty "old hat" now, but not in livecode.
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