Re: visual effect not working to show stack
I use animation engine to slide an opaque group into view. You can slide it from anywhere, to anywhere. Works perfectly, just like a drawer. John B No, I can't point to a version of LiveCode where this ever worked... I was dreaming again (ha!) So... it can't be done, except by these messy methods you describe. I guess we will have to live without it. Too bad, as many modern UX designs call for the cool appearance of content like this. And the architecture would be best served by keeping really disparate content in different substacks. I will put in a feature request... I suppose we could also go for building a group and then hiding and showing that... if all we are presenting to the user is a set of controls or info like a help window or big giant calendar/date picker. Again, this tends to overload the main stack when substacks would be a better way to manage the content. Or: use sheet and be content with the drop from the top default effect. BR Scott Rossi wrote: I don't know that it has ever been possible to use a visual effect when launching a stack. Can you point to a version of LiveCode where this works? The only stack-level effects I've been able to manage are a dissolve-into-view effect by setting the stack's blendLevel from 100 to 0, expand/contract effects by repeatedly changing the stack's rect, or a morph-type effect by repeatedly chafing a stack's windowShape to a sequence of images. There may be ways to fake the effect you're looking but they're a bit messy. One way would be to capture the portion of the desktop where you intend to display your stack in a decoration-less stack. You could reveal a snapshot of your real stack in the capture stack using whatever effect you want, display your real stack above the capture stack, then remove the capture stack from view using blendLevel of 100 and close. Perhaps one of the above would work for you. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
RE: visual effect not working to show stack
Read the dictionary... 'The visual effect command affects only navigation within a window. If you want to create a transition effect when moving between stacks, use the go...in window form of the go command:' Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 20:58:40 -1000 From: bra...@hindu.org To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Subject: visual effect not working to show stack I have a main stack and a substack this button on the main stack is meant to open the substack and show it with a visual effect. It doesn't work... the substack just snaps open LC 6.6.2 OS X Mavericks on mouseUp go invisible stack choose date show stack choose date with visual effect iris open very slowly end mouseUp what am I doing wrong? -- Swasti Astu, Be Well! Brahmanathaswami Kauai's Hindu Monastery www.HimalayanAcademy.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: visual effect not working to show stack
John: right... I did read the dictionary. but we don't want the substack being revealed to take over the window of the main stack. and, this doesn't work: on mouseUp visual effect reveal up very slowly go stack Choose Date in new window end mouseUp I presume, because, new window does not qualify as within a window this also does not work: on mouseUp lock screen for visual effect go stack Choose Date in new window unlock screen with visual effect reveal up very slowly end mouseUp Either I am still missing something really simple. OR what we want: open a stack in a different window with a visual effect that emulates a slide effect of moving into view from the bottom into the rect of the current card of the background/parent stack... is not doable, which I find hard to believe Sheet: only works from the top Drawer: only pushes out from the rect of the stack Goal: have the sub stack slide into the screen rect of the parent stack, i.e. behave like a drawer, but move into instead of out from, the parent stack. I hope I am missing something really simple. Swasti Astu, Be Well! Brahmanathaswami Kauai's Hindu Monastery www.HimalayanAcademy.com John Dixon wrote: Read the dictionary... 'The visual effect command affects only navigation within a window. If you want to create a transition effect when moving between stacks, use the go...in window form of the go command:' ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: visual effect not working to show stack
I don't know that it has ever been possible to use a visual effect when launching a stack. Can you point to a version of LiveCode where this works? The only stack-level effects I've been able to manage are a dissolve-into-view effect by setting the stack's blendLevel from 100 to 0, expand/contract effects by repeatedly changing the stack's rect, or a morph-type effect by repeatedly chafing a stack's windowShape to a sequence of images. There may be ways to fake the effect you're looking but they're a bit messy. One way would be to capture the portion of the desktop where you intend to display your stack in a decoration-less stack. You could reveal a snapshot of your real stack in the capture stack using whatever effect you want, display your real stack above the capture stack, then remove the capture stack from view using blendLevel of 100 and close. Perhaps one of the above would work for you. Happy Holidays, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media UX/UI Design On Dec 23, 2014, at 12:04 PM, Brahmanathaswami bra...@hindu.org wrote: John: right... I did read the dictionary. but we don't want the substack being revealed to take over the window of the main stack. and, this doesn't work: on mouseUp visual effect reveal up very slowly go stack Choose Date in new window end mouseUp I presume, because, new window does not qualify as within a window this also does not work: on mouseUp lock screen for visual effect go stack Choose Date in new window unlock screen with visual effect reveal up very slowly end mouseUp Either I am still missing something really simple. OR what we want: open a stack in a different window with a visual effect that emulates a slide effect of moving into view from the bottom into the rect of the current card of the background/parent stack... is not doable, which I find hard to believe Sheet: only works from the top Drawer: only pushes out from the rect of the stack Goal: have the sub stack slide into the screen rect of the parent stack, i.e. behave like a drawer, but move into instead of out from, the parent stack. I hope I am missing something really simple. Swasti Astu, Be Well! Brahmanathaswami Kauai's Hindu Monastery www.HimalayanAcademy.com John Dixon wrote: Read the dictionary... 'The visual effect command affects only navigation within a window. If you want to create a transition effect when moving between stacks, use the go...in window form of the go command:' ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: visual effect not working to show stack
No, I can't point to a version of LiveCode where this ever worked... I was dreaming again (ha!) So... it can't be done, except by these messy methods you describe. I guess we will have to live without it. Too bad, as many modern UX designs call for the cool appearance of content like this. And the architecture would be best served by keeping really disparate content in different substacks. I will put in a feature request... I suppose we could also go for building a group and then hiding and showing that... if all we are presenting to the user is a set of controls or info like a help window or big giant calendar/date picker. Again, this tends to overload the main stack when substacks would be a better way to manage the content. Or: use sheet and be content with the drop from the top default effect. BR Scott Rossi wrote: I don't know that it has ever been possible to use a visual effect when launching a stack. Can you point to a version of LiveCode where this works? The only stack-level effects I've been able to manage are a dissolve-into-view effect by setting the stack's blendLevel from 100 to 0, expand/contract effects by repeatedly changing the stack's rect, or a morph-type effect by repeatedly chafing a stack's windowShape to a sequence of images. There may be ways to fake the effect you're looking but they're a bit messy. One way would be to capture the portion of the desktop where you intend to display your stack in a decoration-less stack. You could reveal a snapshot of your real stack in the capture stack using whatever effect you want, display your real stack above the capture stack, then remove the capture stack from view using blendLevel of 100 and close. Perhaps one of the above would work for you. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
