Moving controls smoothly around the screen

[Ralph DiMola]

Pete,

I use Scott's method and it works v well on mobile.

Ralph DiMola
IT Director
Evergreen Information Services
rdimola at evergreeninfo.net


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From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf
Of Scott Morrow
Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2013 3:57 PM
To: How to use LiveCode
Subject: Re: Moving controls smoothly around the screen

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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Scott Morrow

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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
> lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
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