On 11/02/2012 12:19, Richard MacLemale wrote:
I'm creating a variable called frameNumber and each time the loop is triggered I'm adding 1 to it. Since I've scripted my loop to run 30 times per second, after 1 second the frameNumber would be 30. OK, so I want certain lines of code to be run at certain frame numbers. Something like this:frame 30: set the loc of image "flower" to 400,401 set the height of image "flower" to 150 set the width of image "flower" to 150 frame 35: hide image "flower" So imagine I've got a whole big list of commands like that, that I need run at specific frames. What is the best way to do this?
I'm a LiveCode newbie, but I'd want to minimise the time spent asking "is it time for me yet" for each of those commands.
I'd probably try to put the commands into a list ordered on the frame number. Your insert is a little trickier here, because you need to preserve the order of the frame number.
Each time through the loop, you look at the first command on the list, and if the current frame is less you know no actions are due and ignore it, if it matches, remove it from the list and perform the action, and then check the next item on the list.
Does that make sense? Is there a better way to handle such things in LiveCode?
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