Re: Board game with pieces / scrolling images in sync?

2008-01-09 Thread Joshua Lawrence
Great! Thank you both, Scott and Andres - those tips should be enough for me to start putting something together (I think I'll stick to having all the pieces on the board/in the group and just hiding 'out of play' ones, as suggested). I'll yelp on this list again if I get stuck, which is l

Re: Board game with pieces / scrolling images in sync?

2008-01-09 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Joshua Lawrence wrote: > how does adding/removing pieces during play work when the > pieces are grouped with the board? Are 'out-of-play' > pieces actually on the board at all times, but you > make them invisible when necessary? Or do you > add/remove pieces to the group via scripting

Re: Board game with pieces / scrolling images in sync?

2008-01-09 Thread Andres Martinez
Hello Josh Answers below... Regards, Andres Martinez www.baKno.com On Jan 9, 2008, at 2:19 PM, Joshua Lawrence wrote: Thanks, Andres. So a couple of extra questions: how does adding/removing pieces during play work when the pieces are grouped with the board? Are 'out-of-play' pieces actual

Re: Board game with pieces / scrolling images in sync?

2008-01-09 Thread Joshua Lawrence
Thanks, Andres. So a couple of extra questions: how does adding/removing pieces during play work when the pieces are grouped with the board? Are 'out-of-play' pieces actually on the board at all times, but you make them invisible when necessary? Or do you add/remove pieces to the group via scri

Re: Board game with pieces / scrolling images in sync?

2008-01-09 Thread Andres Martinez
Hello Josh What you want to do is really simple. Just group the board with the pieces, and when you need to scroll the board, scroll that group instead. It will scroll both the board and the pieces at the same time. And to move the pieces over the board, use relative positions. We do the

Board game with pieces / scrolling images in sync?

2008-01-09 Thread Joshua Lawrence
Hello, all. I want to emulate a board game with multiple playing pieces, and the board itself is several screens wide, so it needs to scroll. I know I can implement the scrolling board by having its image set up as a group with its location locked and adding vertical and horizontal scrollbars. B