Swiping between cards - metaphor end-of-the-road?

[Richard Gaskin]

Alejandro Tejada wrote:

 > Check this script. This code would be a starting point for a script
 > that implement this swiping card feature. Maybe I will try to code it
 > myself when my headache ends.

Your headache won't end until your RAM chips arrive. :)\


 > After we have 3 images (from previous, current and next card,) the
 > script of top image (image of current card) just have to change
 > the layer of previous and next card images, depending of movement
 > direction:
 >
 > a) moving the image to left or down or diagonally to the left
 > will show the image of next card
 >
 > b) moving the image to right or up or diagonally to the right
 > will show the image of next card
 >
 > In countries that reads from right to left, like Japan,
 > these movements would be reversed.
 >
 > on mouseup
 >    lock screen
 >
 >    put the rect of this cd into q
 >    export snapshot from rect q of this cd to myVar as PNG
 >    create img
 >    set the text of it to myVar
 >
 >    go prev -- previous card
 >     put the rect of this cd into q
 >     export snapshot from rect q of this cd to myVar as PNG
 >     go back -- we return to the card where we started
 >    create img
 >    set the text of it to myVar
 >
 >
 >    go next
 >    put the rect of this cd into q
 >    export snapshot from rect q of this cd to myVar as PNG
 >    go back
 >    create img
 >    set the text of it to myVar
 >
 >    put the number of images of this card into w
 >    put the number of controls of this card into r
 >
 >    set the layer of img (w-2) of this card to r
 >    -- image of current card is moved to top layer
 >
 >    unlock screen
 > end mouseup

I like DIY solutions that don't require waiting for the engine team, but 
I wonder how smoothly performant this would feel in actual use?

On modern high-end phones those bitmaps will be pretty big.

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