Graham,
Not sure if you've ever found a solution for this problem, but I've got a
couple other suggestions that may help.
First, if you're simply issuing a command like:
visual effect "whatever"
go cd "someCard"
then this should work just fine. I've found that if something like this is not
working, it's usually because I have some kind of error that's occurring in the
script (usually preOpenCard) of the card I'm trying to go to. Nothing to do in
this case but debug and try to figure out what's going on. With that said, I
have actually found, and I believe others have as well, that you get a very
slight performance boost if you use the "lock screen for visual effect" command
instead of the above method. So something like:
lock screen for visual effect
go cd "someCard"
unlock screen with visual effect "whatever"
So you might give that a try and see what happens. As I said, it's not
necessary to do it this way, and the first method should work just fine.
If I remember correctly, your original post also mentioned using a visual
effect when moving to different stacks. If not, disregard the following. I've
found a way that works well for me. There are probably others. I was also
having issues with this at one point, and I found this worked just fine.
Something like:
visual effect "whatever"
go cd "someCard" of stack "theToStack"
close stack "theFromStack"
It seems to be necessary to specify a card, even if there's only one, when
using the go command, otherwise the visual effect doesn't happen. And the same
goes for the close stack command. It's supposedly not necessary to do that, as
in iOS only one stack is open at a time, but, once again, I found that the
effect did not work correctly if I didn't issue that command.
Hope some of this helps. Once again, if you find that visual effects are not
happening like they should, but the code is correct and you *are* moving to the
desired card, most likely it's a script error somewhere.
Chris
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Chris Sheffield
Read Naturally, Inc.
www.readnaturally.com
On Feb 20, 2012, at 1:26 PM, Graham Samuel wrote:
> Thanks Paul, stupid of me. I seem always to be looking in the wrong place for
> information.
>
> Having finally reviewed that page (12) I notice that the description doesn't
> apply to my case. I have not locked the screen, and am just doing a
> card-to-card transition. As I said, my very simple example works (set up a
> "flip left" visual effect, then go to a different card), but it doesn't work
> in my app. I am quite prepared to believe it's my fault but I really can't
> see what I'm doing wrong. Incidentally, locking and unlocking the screen as
> described in the document doesn't help.
>
> Thanks for the info, though.
>
> Graham
>
> OnMon, 20 Feb 2012 11:21:36 +0000, Paul Hibbert <l...@pbh.on-rev.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Graham,
>>
>>> Thanks - I had not read these notes in detail and indeed it took some time
>>> to find anything like them on the RunRev web site - they don't seem to have
>>> stuck around on my Mac after installation. The only notes I could find are
>>> called "LiveCodeNotes-5_0_0.pdf, revision 7", and there's nothing on Page
>>> 12, so I still seem to have missed it - maybe you could tell me what it
>>> says?
>>
>> The notes John Dixon referred to should be under the Help menu in the
>> LiveCode application, they are right below the 'User Guide' link.
>>
>> If you want to access them through the finder, ctrl-click (right click) on
>> the LiveCode application icon, choose 'Show Package Contents', then navigate
>> to 'Contents > Tools', the release notes for LiveCode, iOS & Android are all
>> in that folder.
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Paul
>
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