Totally Loopy

[David Williams]

Disregard that - as soon as I hit send, my mail client fetched the other  
responses :)

On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 12:46:45 +0100, David Williams  
<dwilliams at livecode.com> wrote:

> Hi Richmond,
>
> The way to do this is to wait with messages - so 'wait 4 ticks' becomes  
> 'wait 4 ticks with messages'. This form of the command allows other  
> messages to be passed while it's executing, making it a non-blocking  
> wait.
>
> Regards,
>
> -David
>
> On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 11:52:06 +0100, Richmond  
> <richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I am animating a series of images like this:
>>
>> on animaSHun
>>     set the vis of img "M1" to true
>>     set the vis of img "M4" to false
>>     wait 4 ticks
>>      set the vis of img "M2" to true
>>     set the vis of img "M1" to false
>>     wait 4 ticks
>>      set the vis of img "M3" to true
>>     set the vis of img "M2" to false
>>     wait 4 ticks
>>     set the vis of img "M4" to true
>>     set the vis of img "M3" to false
>>     wait 4 ticks
>>     animaSHun
>> end animaSHun
>>
>> and there I was feeling proud of myself for having been "so" clever,  
>> BUT I was wrong . . .
>>
>> Now in the same cardScript I have an "on arrowKey" script to let me  
>> move the animation
>> around the card with the arrow keys on my keyboard . . .
>>
>> But that "animaSHun" routine goes round and round (as, indeed, it  
>> should) and the arrowKeys
>> are quite unable to "get a word in edgeways"; in fact the only way to  
>> stop the thing
>> is by crashing LiveCode.
>>
>> I would be grateful if anyone could tell me how to get a word in  
>> edgeways while keeping the animation going.
>>
>> Yup: I know I could just use an animated GIF image . . . but, call me  
>> bloody-minded, I have my
>> reasons for not using one.
>>
>> Richmond.
>>
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