Showing one image in a hidden group of images

Barry Levine themacguy at macosx.com
Sat Aug 30 17:59:01 EDT 2003


I have a group of four images that is invisible until needed. I'd now 
like to show only one of those images when a user clicks at a certain 
location. I have no trouble determining when the user has clicked the 
appropriate spot.

I've tried showing and hiding the image alone but, as the group is 
invisible, the "showing/hiding" is taking place in an invisible object 
so, of course, you don't see it.

I'm wondering if something like the following is the most efficient way 
of handling this:

on mouseUp
   set the lockScreen to true
   put the loc of image myImage into myLoc -- for brevity later on
   copy image myImage to this stack
   put word 3 of it into myNewID -- tha's the ID# of the newly created 
image
   set the loc of image ID myNewID to myLoc -- same loc as the original 
image
   show image ID myNewID
   set the lockScreen to false
   wait 2 seconds -- or do whatever
   delete image ID myNewID
end mouseUp

This seems to work nicely but I'm wondering if I'm heading down a path 
whereby I'll screw up the carefully placed groups of images.

Thanks in advance,
Barry

PS - Anyone coding this holiday weekend?


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