I'm looking to "dress" up our new app with more elegant visuals. I was using send in time to a handle that changes the blendlevel of small objects… this works well and is none blocking.
But someone asked "Why don't you just use dissolve?" Duh.. the dictionary doesn't give the platforms that work with dissolve but apparently, it runs just fine on iOS and Android. So, I did some tests…wondering about the engine's timing work with visual effects: create stack place image put two buttons "hide" "show" and one field "bool" Btn 1: on mouseUp put empty into fld "bool" hide image burger with visual effect dissolve very slowly put "false" into fld "bool" answer "Are U Hidden Yet?" with "Yes" or "No" end mouseUp btn 2: on mouseUp put empty into fld "bool" show image burger with visual effect dissolve very slowly put "true" into fld "bool" answer "Are U Showing Yet?" with "Yes" or "No" end mouseUp that visual effect is blocking. The commands that follow do not run until the visual effect is done, effectively visual effect is a "wait" Also the dictionary says if you put two visual effects one after another they run consecutively. but what if you want 2 visual effects to run simultaneously and also have another process (like type txt or invoke a dialog etc) occur at the same time? typical example:, let's say I want to create a cross fade between two images. The show and hide for each one with dissolve would need to run simultaneously. I'm using "very slowly" for testing, in a real app we would probably use very fast or fast. img 1: "burger: img 2: "shot" on mouseUp hide image burger with visual effect dissolve very slowly show image shot with visual effect dissolve very slowly end mouseUp on mouseUp put empty into fld "bool" show image burger with visual effect dissolve very slowly hide image shot with visual effect dissolve very slowly put "true" into fld "bool" answer "Are U Showing Yet?" with "Yes" or "No" end mouseUp in both cases the first effect runs and then the next one.. I don't get a "cross fade" effect. in the latter, first the hidden image appears (behind the one in front) then the front one dissolves, then the fld is filled and then the answer dialog opens… locking and unlocking the screen doesn't help Are simultaneous visual effects + some process even possible? The dictionary does not explicitly declare visual effect to be blocking. But all my tests indicate it is. I hope I am wrong. BR _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
