Moving a Group Smoothly

[Roger Guay]

I registered a bug report about a month ago about this method (lock/unlock with visual dissolve) causing random screen flashing in Yosemite. At the time, I did not get much confirmation from others. I’m still very much wrestling with this problem which appeared suddenly when I upgraded to Yosemite and with all recent versions of LiveCode. 

Roger

 
> On Jan 3, 2015, at 10:44 PM, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:
> 
> Instead of moving the group, try show/ hide "with visual effect". More info
> in the dictionary.
> On Jan 3, 2015 8:07 PM, "Brahmanathaswami" <brahma at hindu.org> wrote:
> 
>> This has probably been asked and answered 100 times.
>> 
>> Because of the iOS limitation on opening substacks (no second windows
>> allowed)
>> 
>> I have set up a whole piece of the UI that I would normally put onto a
>> substack... into a group...
>> 
>> A "close" button and GUI clean up routine in the preopenstack handler
>> pushes the group below the visible area to  291,1204
>> 
>> I just want the group to "slide up" smoothly and very quickly. But this
>> script, in the 7.01 IDE performs very badly:
>> 
>> on mouseUp
>>   lock messages
>>   move group "SettingsDialog"  from 291,1204 to 291,351 without waiting
>> end mouseUp
>> 
>> The group moves up slowly and "stutters" as it moves. For modern UI/UX we
>> really need elegant motion graphics behavior across the whole platform.
>> 
>> Can this be improved?  Is perfectly smooth motion even possible now in
>> LiveCode? I realize it was never so great years ago, but I've been doing so
>> much server side LC work in the past few years and hardly touched the
>> presentation layer of app development until recently...and all my in house
>> production tools apps are very plain/functional designs with zero eye
>> candy.   I thought motion would have much improved by now. What am I doing
>> wrong?
>> 
>> (Mac OS X Yosemite)
>> 
>> 
>> Brahmanathaswami
>> 
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