Moving Stacks or the Mouse

[Thomas McGrath III]

Roger,

You could capture the start points x,y and then you must know your end 
points u,v and figure the stepping distance between the two. So if you 
had x= 200 and u = 340 and you wanted a step of 10 then you could 
repeat with a = x to u step 10 or (200, 210, 220, 230, 240... 
320,330,340)
Or written like this: (not tested yet)

	repeat with a = x to u step 10
   	  put a & cr after myLocsOne
   	end repeat
	repeat with b = y to v step 10
  	  put  b & cr after myLocsTwo
  	end repeat

Then put the two lists together.

repeat with h = 1 to the number of lines in myLocsOne
	put (line h of myLocsOne) & "," & (line h of myLocsTwo) into line h of 
myLocs
end repeat

repeat with x = 1 to the number of lines in myLocs
    set the screenMouseLoc to (line x of myLocs)
     wait 500 milliseconds -- adjust this to a speed that feels good to 
you
end repeat


Tom
P.S. you can also do this kind of thing with the points of a polygon or 
line etc. and record or as I have done with the localLoc of buttons

HTHs

On Jun 8, 2005, at 7:30 PM, Roger Guay wrote:

> Thom,
>
> Thank you for this suggestion.  First let me explain that I am 
> building an animated tutorial and otherwise agree with you on the 
> inadvisability of moving the mouse for the user.  However my tutorial 
> I will require the "animation" of the mouse to occur over many 
> different paths across open stacks.  How would I generate list of 
> points for many paths that would result in a smooth animation of the 
> mouse movement?
>
> You can see why I also thought of moving a tiny stack whose 
> windowShape is a hand or pointer from the location of a point of one 
> stack to the location of a point in another stack.  This I have done, 
> but I still wonder if there isn't an easier way??
>
> Thanks and cheers, Roger
>
> Ps.  I'm sorry I dropped the Subject Heading last go-around.
>
>
> On Jun 8, 2005, at 3:26 PM, use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com 
> wrote:
>
>> You might want to have a list of the coordinates in a variable and 
>> then
>> go through each line in a loop with:
>>
>> on mouseUp
>>    put "252,348" & cr & "267,323" & cr & "274,318" & cr & "285,275" & 
>> cr
>> & "292,248" into myLocs -- for a sample
>>
>> --or adjust this to your needs
>> --put globalLoc(the loc of group h) & cr after myLocs
>>
>> repeat with x = 1 to the number of lines in myLocs
>>    set the screenMouseLoc to (line x of myLocs)
>>     wait 500 milliseconds
>> end repeat
>> end mouseUp
>>
>> thereby making the mouse move to the points in the list. IMPORTANT 
>> this
>> is not normal HIG behavior and users do not like it when the mouse is
>> moved for them. It does have it's good points and I use it in animated
>> tutorials.
>>
>> I set points
>> On Jun 8, 2005, at 6:12 PM, Roger Guay wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hi Eric,
>>>
>>> Not quite what I want.  I want to simulate (script) the MOVEMENT of
>>> the mouse from one location to another across stacks.  I don't want 
>>> to
>>> just set the mouse location but rather move it uniformly from one
>>> location to another.  Am I still missing something obvious??
>>>
>>> Cheers, Roger
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jun 8, 2005, at 1:41 PM, use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> What you need is: set the screenMouseLoc to tH,tV
>>>> Check the screenMouseLoc property in the docs :-)
>>>>
>>>> Le 8 juin 05 à 23:08, Roger Guay a écrit :
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks, Xavier.  I am aware of the ability to drag a tool from one
>>>>> point to another, But drag mouse does not work!  And of course,
>>>>> this is what I really want . . . I want to drag the mouse from one
>>>>> point to another across open stacks.  Since I could not figure out
>>>>> how to do this specifically, I then decided to move a tiny window
>>>>> with a "hand" shape from a point within one stack to a point in
>>>>> another stack.  To do this, I have successfully worked out the
>>>>> required geometry.  But, I still wonder if there is a way to move
>>>>> the mouse itself??  Am I missing something obvious??
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Best regards from Paris,
>>>>
>>>> Eric Chatonet.
>>
>
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