Re: [ANN] Animated gif for OSX progress
You are most welcome, Joel. And Howard, you are not actually stopping the animation which continues in the background. As in the original posting and repeated when uploaded to ssBk Online, set the repeatCount of the image ID to -1 to start the animation and 0 to stop it. On what platform do you run? I still dont see the animation during script execution. Try this on MacOSX 10.4.2: 1.- Put this handler in the script of a card displaying your animation image: on doTheLongProcess pCount repeat with i=1 to pCount put i end repeat end doTheLongProcess 2.- Ensure that the image is animated, i.e. type in the msg box: set the repeatCount of the image X to -1 3.- Type the following in the msg box doTheLongProcess 4000 4.- Here you notice that the msg box displays an increasing value but the image is not animated. Now, do you catch my former question? Or does your own computer display the animation, mine does not... So to allow for the animation to be displayed during the execution of script, I do the following: 1.- Change the above script to: on doTheLongProcess pCount repeat with i=1 to pCount put i animateImg -- this is the fix to allow for the animation to display. end repeat end doTheLongProcess local llast_animate = 0 on animateImg i -- dont do the wait for each iteration of the calling handler since this will slow down the execution: if millisecs()-llast_animate100 then wait 0 millisecs put millisecs() into llast_animate end if end animateImg 2.- Note that calling wait allows for the screen to display. 3.- Dont use a lockscreen or set lockscreen to true in your script because this will prevent the redisplay, of course. That's my proposal. I build a test stack named Display animation process which you find under username imed. It will show you time wasting depending of the settings (animate or not, screen locked or not). JG ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: [ANN] Animated gif for OSX progress
I suspect the repeat loop is so tight that it leaves no cycles left for the engine to activate the animation frames. For most purposes, an animated gif will happily run in it's own 'memory area', or at least that is my experiance and impression over the years. /H on doTheLongProcess pCount repeat with i=1 to pCount put i end repeat end doTheLongProcess ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: [ANN] Animated gif for OSX progress
Thanks for the nice 16x16 24-frame animated gif ! I wonder to know if there is a way in Revolution that animated gif are going to be automatically animated during the execution of a script. This is in fact the reason of your new 'chasing arrows' to show the user that a process is currently running and he should be patient. My solution up to now: 1.- open the animated gif in GraphicConverter 2.- save it as a Quicktime Movie, 3.- add a Player named MyAnim onto your card 4.- in message box type : set the filename of player MyAnim to theQuicktimeMovieFilePath set the looping of player MyAnim to true 5.- then a script sample during which the animation is displayed: on doSomeLongProcess show player MyAnim start player MyAnim here you have some long process to run -- -- change as needed... stop player MyAnim hide player MyAnim end doSomeLongProcess 6.- Of course the animation is not displayed if you set the lockscreen to true in your script. Enjoy and tell me if there is a direct solution with animated gif. Joel G ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: [ANN] Animated gif for OSX progress
On 8/21/05, Joel Guillod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the nice 16x16 24-frame animated gif ! I wonder to know if there is a way in Revolution that animated gif are going to be automatically animated during the execution of a script. When I tested it, the animation ran automatically whenever the gif was showing. So to use the busy indicator, I just set a transparent button to the icon of the gif to show it and set the icon to 0 to stop it. -- toggle the wait indicator if the icon of btn wait is 0 then set the icon of btn wait to 1004 -- the id of the gif else set the icon of btn wait to 0 end if -- Regards, Howard Bornstein --- www.designeq.com ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: [ANN] Animated gif for OSX progress
You are most welcome, Joel. And Howard, you are not actually stopping the animation which continues in the background. As in the original posting and repeated when uploaded to ssBk Online, set the repeatCount of the image ID to -1 to start the animation and 0 to stop it. /H On 8/21/05, Joel Guillod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the nice 16x16 24-frame animated gif ! I wonder to know if there is a way in Revolution that animated gif are going to be automatically animated during the execution of a script. When I tested it, the animation ran automatically whenever the gif was showing. So to use the busy indicator, I just set a transparent button to the icon of the gif to show it and set the icon to 0 to stop it. ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: [ANN] Animated gif for OSX progress
On 8/21/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And Howard, you are not actually stopping the animation which continues in the background. As in the original posting and repeated when uploaded to ssBk Online, set the repeatCount of the image ID to -1 to start the animation and 0 to stop it. Right. I realize that. How much of a performance hit do you think we take for keeping that little animation running all the time? -- Regards, Howard Bornstein --- www.designeq.com ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: [ANN] Animated gif for OSX progress
And Howard, you are not actually stopping the animation which continues in the background. As in the original posting and repeated when uploaded to ssBk Online, set the repeatCount of the image ID to -1 to start the animation and 0 to stop it. Right. I realize that. How much of a performance hit do you think we take for keeping that little animation running all the time? Probably not a great deal, Howard, but for the sake of a simple line probably a tidier solution. /H ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: [ANN] Animated gif for OSX progress
Thanks, Hugh. Curious...why didn't you post this on SSBK onlne? Heh Dan It has now been posted to The Scripter's Scrapbook Online, with an Entry as below including the download link. Remember you can always store a copy the file in your own ssBk Entry, then restore as many copies as you want whenever you need to. /H FLCo Home of The Scripter's Scrapbook www.FlexibleLearning.com/ssbk.htm --- OSX Async Progress Ani.gif PLATFORM(s): Mac OSX LANGUAGE(s): Rev CLASSIFICATION(s): Deployment : Interface The standard OSX asyncronous progress indicator (the grey 'flower' with chasing 'petals') is available as a 16px 24-frame, transparent, animated gif. It was created from the 24 tiff files in the OSX system folder, scaled to 16px as required by the OSX HIG (Apple Human Interface Guidelines 2005-8-11, page 138). The 4kb file size is very much smaller than the combined size of the tiff files, so it has a very small impact on your stack size. Suitable for use on light backgrounds (white or light grey for example) due to anti-aliasing that will display the 'halo' effect on dark backgrounds. Download: www.FlexibleLearning.com/xtalk/OSXspinnerANI.zip In a button: set the ID of btn [myBtn] to [tImgID] Start animation: set the repeatCount of img ID [tImgID] to -1 Stop animation: set the repeatCount of img ID [tImgID] to 0 SOURCE: Hugh Senior, The Flexible Learning Company, 19AUG2005 --- ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
[ANN] Animated gif for OSX progress
The 'chasing arrows' is no longer OSX-HIG conformant (Apple Human Interface Guidelines 2005-8-11, page 138) and the asynchronous progress indicator is recommended. Trouble is, it's not readily accessible so we have made one for Rev... www.FlexibleLearning.com/xtalk/OSXspinnerANI.zip It's a 16x16 24-frame animated gif, is only 4kb in size, and should replicate native OSX for most purposes in your stacks. With thanks to Todd for locating the original 32px tiff files! Notes for folks new to animated icons in Revolution... 1. Download from the address above 2. Unzip to the gif 3. Import the image file into your stack 4. Make a note of the image's ID To Start the animation, type this in the message box... set the repeatCount of img id [theImgID] to -1 To stop the animation, type this in the message box... set the repeatCount of img id [theImgID] to 0 To implement in a button (so you can use a single image anywhere and as many times as you want without duplicating it), simply set the icon of the button to [theImgID] and use the same lines above to start and stop as required. /H FLCo The Scripter's Scrapbook www.FlexibleLearning.com/ssbk.htm ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: [ANN] Animated gif for OSX progress
Thanks, Hugh. Curious...why didn't you post this on SSBK onlne? Heh Dan On Aug 19, 2005, at 4:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The 'chasing arrows' is no longer OSX-HIG conformant (Apple Human Interface Guidelines 2005-8-11, page 138) and the asynchronous progress indicator is recommended. Trouble is, it's not readily accessible so we have made one for Rev... www.FlexibleLearning.com/xtalk/OSXspinnerANI.zip It's a 16x16 24-frame animated gif, is only 4kb in size, and should replicate native OSX for most purposes in your stacks. With thanks to Todd for locating the original 32px tiff files! Notes for folks new to animated icons in Revolution... 1. Download from the address above 2. Unzip to the gif 3. Import the image file into your stack 4. Make a note of the image's ID To Start the animation, type this in the message box... set the repeatCount of img id [theImgID] to -1 To stop the animation, type this in the message box... set the repeatCount of img id [theImgID] to 0 To implement in a button (so you can use a single image anywhere and as many times as you want without duplicating it), simply set the icon of the button to [theImgID] and use the same lines above to start and stop as required. /H FLCo The Scripter's Scrapbook www.FlexibleLearning.com/ssbk.htm ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: [ANN] Animated gif for OSX progress
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The 'chasing arrows' is no longer OSX-HIG conformant (Apple Human Interface Guidelines 2005-8-11, page 138) and the asynchronous progress indicator is recommended. Trouble is, it's not readily accessible so we have made one for Rev... www.FlexibleLearning.com/xtalk/OSXspinnerANI.zip It's a 16x16 24-frame animated gif, is only 4kb in size, and should replicate native OSX for most purposes in your stacks. With thanks to Todd for locating the original 32px tiff files! Way cool -- thanks for posting that. Kinda makes a fella wonder why OS vendors don't provide graphics like this themselves. I know, I know: Surely we're the only operating system you're writing for, so just use our API. ;) -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials and more: http://www.revJournal.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
