Bouncy Updated for 2.6

[Pat Trendler]

No. I was trying to catch them - they were too fast. Had to kill them in the 
end - I did feel sorry about that.

Escape didn't work on windows.

Pat
patrend at bigpond.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas McGrath III" <3mcgrath at adelphia.net>
To: "How to use Revolution" <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 8:38 PM
Subject: Re: Bouncy Updated for 2.6


> 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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