Bouncy Updated for 2.6

[Pat Trendler]

I have 20 or so Bouncies flying around the screen going pop, pop, ... 
Nothing stops them. They're bouncing off one another. I've tried every key 
combination I can think of, yes, including escape. So I am going to escape 
for a couple of hours and hope they wear themselves out.

Of course I could give them the three finger salute - but where's the scary 
fun in that.

Is this revenge for Intel.

Pat
(cross eyed and gone deaf - well, more so than usual)

patrend at bigpond.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Geoff Canyon" <gcanyon at inspiredlogic.com>
To: "Use-Revolution" <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 5:36 PM
Subject: Bouncy Updated for 2.6


> I've updated the Bouncy stack with the Revolution graphic for 2.6. It  now 
> happily bounces around the screen with a deep mask. The engine  handles it 
> very nicely (disclaimer: handles it nicely on my 1ghz  PowerBook. Please 
> let me know how it behaves on older hardware).
>
> Use this command in the message box in 2.6 to see it:
>
> go url "http://www.inspiredlogic.com/rev/bouncy2.rev"
>
> Make sure you select the browse tool, and then fling it!
>
> For those who don't remember, bouncy is a windowshaped stack that can  be 
> tossed around the screen. It bounces off the bottom and sides, and  makes 
> a noise when it does. There is gravity and a slight friction,  so 
> eventually it will slow and stop. The top of the screen is left  open. 
> With practice you can fling the window so high it will take  many seconds 
> to reappear on screen.
>
> I wrote the first iteration of bouncy while waiting for a plane. I  didn't 
> expect it to run too well, but it surprised me. Now it has  surprised me 
> again. Even with a deep mask on a roughly 200x700 pixel  stack, it not 
> only works smoothly, it works smoothly with twenty of  those stacks going 
> nuts on screen
>
> Features include (not all tested under 2.6, let me know if you hit 
> issues):
>
>  -- Grab and throw in any direction.
>  -- Drag and drop wherever you like.
>  -- Shift-drag to slingshot. Some people find it hard to throw  bouncy. 
> The answer is to hold down the shift key, click and drag  bouncy. When you 
> let go bouncy will slingshot quickly toward where  you started dragging 
> from.
>  -- Option-click bouncy to create a clone of the stack. There is no  limit 
> to the number of copies you can create. As you create more and  more they 
> will eventually get jumpier as you throw them all, but  twenty copies of 
> bouncy all going at once works fine on my computer.
>  -- Command-click to paint bouncy at random. Works better for  changing a 
> solid color to another solid color (it uses the paint  bucket tool) so not 
> so applicable any more.
>  -- Drag an image file onto bouncy to set the image and shape.  Accepts 
> .png and .gif
>  -- Drag a sound file onto bouncy to set the sound bouncy makes when  it 
> hits the wall. Accepts .wav and .aiff
>  -- Hold down the Escape key to stop all copies of bouncy and  position 
> them on screen. NEW -- staggers them when it repositions  them. They used 
> to all pile at the same location.
>  -- Command-C to copy bouncy's script. This is more for when bouncy  is 
> distributed as an application.
>
> Bouncy is a little under two hundred lines of code, reasonably clear  and 
> commented. I'd show it to my mother, anyway. ;-)
>
> If anyone wants bouncy as an app, let me know.
>
> Regards,
>
> Geoff Canyon
> Inspired Logic
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