Bouncy Updated for 2.6

[Thomas McGrath III]

Pat,

You didn't feed them? Did you?


Tom

Escape worked here for me.


On Jun 7, 2005, at 5:25 AM, Pat Trendler wrote:

> 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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