Moving controls smoothly around the screen

[Scott Morrow]

Hello Pete,

I use Animation Engine for a lot of stuff, but for sliding something up or down (iOS & Android only), sometimes this works well:

lock screen for visual effect in rect x,y
-- reposition object here
unlock screen with visual effect scroll down very fast

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On Apr 13, 2013, at 5:59 PM, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:

> I have a stack with a number of buttons and groups on
> it,all vertically aligned.  The groups are initially hidden so the screen
> looks like it has a series of buttons on it.
> 
> When a button is clicked, I need to move all the objects underneath down to
> make room for the hidden group associated with the button to be displayed.
> 
> Also have the same situation (but in reverse) when a button is clicked and
> its group is already visible.  In that case, I need to hide the group and
> slide all the objects under it up to fill the gap.
> 
> I use the "show group ... with visual effect" command to smoothly reveal
> the group (hide group... with visual effect to hide it) but I'm stuck on
> how to move the other objects in an equally smooth way.  Ideally, I'd like
> them to move in lock step with the group.
> 
> I've tried various forms of the move command  and settings of the lockMove
> property but can't seem to get it to work, probably because I'm not
> understanding all the options.  After the group is shown/hidden, the rest
> of the objects just snap to their new positions rather than move smoothly.
> 
> It's almost like I need the move command to have a "with visual effect"
> option.  I have a horrible feeling this is going to involve a bunch of
> repeat loops to move objects around in small increments at specified
> intervals but clinging to the hope the there might be anLC built-in way to
> do it.
> 
> 
> Pete
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