[ widget that turns text horizontal ]

[William Prothero]

Bernd:
Nice widget. I thought it would be interesting to make an animated text line display effect using this. Maybe there are better ways. I tried to get it to turn automatically and just watch for the turnAngle, but I couldn’t get it to start turning, from my script unless I set the turnAngle explicitly.

Any suggestions?
Bill

But, I did:
on mouseUp
   showTheText "This is Bills text"
end mouseUp

local curAngle
local isTurning

on showTheText tText
   set the turnAngle of widget "turnText" to 270
   put 270 into curAngle
   set the displayText of widget "turnText" to tText
   --set the turnSpeed  of widget "turnText" to 2
   put TRUE into isTurning
   doTheTurn
end showTheText

on doTheTurn
   put the turnAngle of widget "turnText" into curAngle
   if curAngle > 360  then
      put false into isTurning
   else
      send "addTurn" to me in 0.02 seconds
   end if
end doTheTurn

on addTurn
   add 5 to curAngle
   set the turnAngle of widget "turnText" to curAngle
   if isTurning then
      doTheTurn
   end if
end addTurn




> On May 29, 2016, at 10:29 AM, BNig <bernd.niggemann at uni-wh.de> wrote:
> 
> Thank you Richmond,
> 
> just taking babysteps into widgets.
> 
> Oh, and if you installed the widget and want to get rid of it use "Tools" ->
> "Extension Manager"
> 
> Kind regards
> Bernd
> 
> 
> 
> RM wrote
>> Clever, clever stuff!
>> 
>> Congratulations.
>> 
>> Richmond.
>> 
>> On 29.05.2016 13:15, BNig wrote:
>>> in the spirit of letting thousand widgets bloom: here is a simple widget
>>> that
>>> turns text horizontally.
>>> 
>>> the widget to install in "My Livecode" -> "extensions"
>>> ----------------------------------
>>> http://berndniggemann.on-rev.com/turnwidget/turnText.zip
>>> ----------------------------------
>>> 
>>> as widget within HTML5 see
>>> ----------------------------------
>>> http://berndniggemann.on-rev.com/turn/turnkurt.html
>>> ----------------------------------
>>> 
>>> tested with LC 8.0.0 to LC 8.1.0 DP1
>>> 
>>> see help file how to install widget and sample stack included in the zip.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks to Trevor for showing an example of transform in his blog
>>> ----------------------------------
>>> http://www.bluemangolearning.com/livecode/2015/04/creating-a-busy-indicator-in-livecode-builder/
>>> ----------------------------------
>>> 
>>> and thanks to Hermann for help with the math.
> 
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