LC 9.6.6 oddities when showing/hiding text

[William Prothero]

Thanks, Jacqueline! I’ll try to.
Bill

William A. Prothero, PhD
Prof Emeritus, Dept of Earth Science
University of California, Santa Barbara

> On Jan 28, 2022, at 9:30 AM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> The newer, recommended method may work better for you:
> 
> lock screen for visual effect [in rect]
> - - do stuff
> unlock screen with visual effect dissolve
> 
> This caches the area and allows the engine better control over the effect.
> 
> --
> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
>> On January 28, 2022 10:51:03 AM William Prothero via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Craig,
>> Tnx, the reason I did the “do” stuff is because I wanted to programmatically vary the speed of the dissolve, initially, but it’s probably not necessary because most of the dissolves are the same. I have a pretty large app and I suspect there is some kind of timing problem because putting in a delay solved some of it. For me, the text fades in, then the field content disappears and leaves a white space where the field was. The background of the field is set to transparent, but I haven’t yet explored setting different options. I will do that today.
>> 
>> Thanks for the comment,
>> Bill
>> 
>> William A. Prothero, PhD
>> Prof Emeritus, Dept of Earth Science
>> University of California, Santa Barbara
>> 
>>>> On Jan 28, 2022, at 6:18 AM, Craig Newman via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi.
>>> 
>>> Still annoyed at having to answer in the use-list as opposed to the Forum.
>>> 
>>> I made a new stack with a button an a field. In the button script:
>>> 
>>> on mouseUp
>>> 
>>> hide fld 1
>>> 
>>> put "fld 1" into lFieldRef
>>> 
>>> put  “dissolve" into tEffect
>>> 
>>> put "show "&lFieldRef&" with visual effect "&quote&tEffect&quote into tDo
>>> 
>>> do tDo
>>> 
>>> end mouseUp
>>> 
>>> Works just fine.
>>> 
>>> Why go through all the “do” stuff? Why not just:
>>> 
>>> show fld 1 with visual effect dissolve
>>> 
>>> Craig
>>> 
>>>> On Jan 27, 2022, at 9:12 PM, William Prothero via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> put "show "&lFieldRef&" with visual effect "&quote&tEffect&quote into tDo
>>>> 
>>>> --wait for 1 second with messages
>>>> 
>>>> wait 500 milliseconds with messages
>>>> 
>>>> do tDo
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