nuther new newbie nuisance
Greetings, I thought I knew how to do this, but it isn't working out. I'm making a stack that will help me practice identifying birds. One card per species. Images and songs, mostly, plus a few fields for habitat, seasonality and so on. Some fields and buttons will be common to all cards, but most fields will not share text. Each card will have different images. Chances are I will gradually add fancy bells and whistles. I'll want to hide the name of the species, for instance, forcing myself to name the species by song or image, then show the name to see if I got it right. That sort of thing. I think I know how to do most of what I plan. At the moment, I'm stuck on a basic problem, and I hope someone will help un-stick me. I want to be able to make a new card, quickly and conveniently, type the name of the species into a field designated for that purpose, then paste several images onto the card -- as many as desired. The total area of the images will be quite a bit larger than the total area of the card, so I want the images to scroll vertically while retaining their positions, relative to each other. I don't mind dragging the new images to their desired locations manually. There's something basic I'm not getting. I thought if I pasted several images onto a card, scroll bars would magically appear, which would scroll the images as a group. Not happening. Maybe backgrounds scroll but stacks and cards don't? I made a scrolling group, pasted multiple pictures in it. That works on one card. But if I set bgBehavior to true, then new card duplicates all the pictures, and the pictures are shared between cards. I want different pictures on each card. If I set bgBehavior to false, making a new card becomes complicated. (I'm a hyperCard retread, so setting bgBehavior to false don't come natchrel.) I don't need detailed instructions or scripts. Just a few hints. Maybe I need to make a scrolling stack with scrollbar buttons, which I would script as needed, instead of depending on the native scroll bars you get with a scrolling group? Hmm... In that case, I guess I'd need to place the scroll bars on each new card... Maybe I need to place a different group on each new card with bgBehavior set to false? Maybe a new card button with a script that places a new group on the new card, sets its rect and size and other characteristics? Maybe there's more than one way to do what I want... probably so... Thanks in advance. Tim ___ 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: nuther new newbie nuisance
Tim, I may be misreading your plan, or some of its details, but if I were to design what I think you are designing, I would not want to put a lot of images on scrolling backgrounds. I would use a database, like SQLite, and create a record for each item in your collection of data. If one item of your data is a set of related image(s), sound recording(s), the name, some text, or maybe a few different types of texts, then that would be one database record with a field for each piece of data. One database record per species, or one per subspecies, or whatever makes sense in your classification. Once you've established a database and a set of scripts to create a record, delete a record, edit a record, and retrieve/search for a record, you will have very little difficulty building your collection and dealing with the data no matter how few or how many records you put into it. Instead of scrolling through a dozen images, you will be able to retrieve and display them in an organized fashion--one at a time, or two at a time, or whatever, each with its associated sound, text, etc. Once the database is established, revising the interface will be a breeze because changing your interface will not involve changing the data. You'll be able to easily experiment with the presentation of your data, because you will have solved the principal part--the organization of data. That's what I would do--but of course I may be missing some crucial points in your idea. Slava -Original Message- From: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode- boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Timothy Miller Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 2:13 AM To: How to use LiveCode Subject: nuther new newbie nuisance Greetings, I thought I knew how to do this, but it isn't working out. I'm making a stack that will help me practice identifying birds. One card per species. Images and songs, mostly, plus a few fields for habitat, seasonality and so on. Some fields and buttons will be common to all cards, but most fields will not share text. Each card will have different images. Chances are I will gradually add fancy bells and whistles. I'll want to hide the name of the species, for instance, forcing myself to name the species by song or image, then show the name to see if I got it right. That sort of thing. I think I know how to do most of what I plan. At the moment, I'm stuck on a basic problem, and I hope someone will help un-stick me. I want to be able to make a new card, quickly and conveniently, type the name of the species into a field designated for that purpose, then paste several images onto the card -- as many as desired. The total area of the images will be quite a bit larger than the total area of the card, so I want the images to scroll vertically while retaining their positions, relative to each other. I don't mind dragging the new images to their desired locations manually. There's something basic I'm not getting. I thought if I pasted several images onto a card, scroll bars would magically appear, which would scroll the images as a group. Not happening. Maybe backgrounds scroll but stacks and cards don't? I made a scrolling group, pasted multiple pictures in it. That works on one card. But if I set bgBehavior to true, then new card duplicates all the pictures, and the pictures are shared between cards. I want different pictures on each card. If I set bgBehavior to false, making a new card becomes complicated. (I'm a hyperCard retread, so setting bgBehavior to false don't come natchrel.) I don't need detailed instructions or scripts. Just a few hints. Maybe I need to make a scrolling stack with scrollbar buttons, which I would script as needed, instead of depending on the native scroll bars you get with a scrolling group? Hmm... In that case, I guess I'd need to place the scroll bars on each new card... Maybe I need to place a different group on each new card with bgBehavior set to false? Maybe a new card button with a script that places a new group on the new card, sets its rect and size and other characteristics? Maybe there's more than one way to do what I want... probably so... Thanks in advance. Tim ___ 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: nuther new newbie nuisance
Tim, Perhaps have a set of 'view' cards, together with an 'input' card (or substack) for data entry that traps the various videos and field data, This input card could have a 'save' button script to create the new 'view' card, copy the images and data to specific locations and add them to the appropriate correct scrollable groups (not set as background)? This 'input' card could then be replicated to make an 'edit' view? Best, Keith.. On 15 Jun 2011, at 07:13, Timothy Miller wrote: Greetings, I thought I knew how to do this, but it isn't working out. I'm making a stack that will help me practice identifying birds. One card per species. Images and songs, mostly, plus a few fields for habitat, seasonality and so on. Some fields and buttons will be common to all cards, but most fields will not share text. Each card will have different images. Chances are I will gradually add fancy bells and whistles. I'll want to hide the name of the species, for instance, forcing myself to name the species by song or image, then show the name to see if I got it right. That sort of thing. I think I know how to do most of what I plan. At the moment, I'm stuck on a basic problem, and I hope someone will help un-stick me. I want to be able to make a new card, quickly and conveniently, type the name of the species into a field designated for that purpose, then paste several images onto the card -- as many as desired. The total area of the images will be quite a bit larger than the total area of the card, so I want the images to scroll vertically while retaining their positions, relative to each other. I don't mind dragging the new images to their desired locations manually. There's something basic I'm not getting. I thought if I pasted several images onto a card, scroll bars would magically appear, which would scroll the images as a group. Not happening. Maybe backgrounds scroll but stacks and cards don't? I made a scrolling group, pasted multiple pictures in it. That works on one card. But if I set bgBehavior to true, then new card duplicates all the pictures, and the pictures are shared between cards. I want different pictures on each card. If I set bgBehavior to false, making a new card becomes complicated. (I'm a hyperCard retread, so setting bgBehavior to false don't come natchrel.) I don't need detailed instructions or scripts. Just a few hints. Maybe I need to make a scrolling stack with scrollbar buttons, which I would script as needed, instead of depending on the native scroll bars you get with a scrolling group? Hmm... In that case, I guess I'd need to place the scroll bars on each new card... Maybe I need to place a different group on each new card with bgBehavior set to false? Maybe a new card button with a script that places a new group on the new card, sets its rect and size and other characteristics? Maybe there's more than one way to do what I want... probably so... Thanks in advance. Tim ___ 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: nuther new newbie nuisance
On 06/15/2011 09:13 AM, Timothy Miller wrote:
Greetings,
I thought I knew how to do this, but it isn't working out.
I'm making a stack that will help me practice identifying birds. One card per species.
Images and songs, mostly, plus a few fields for habitat, seasonality and so on. Some
fields and buttons will be common to all cards, but most fields will not share
text. Each card will have different images.
Chances are I will gradually add fancy bells and whistles. I'll want to hide
the name of the species, for instance, forcing myself to name the species by
song or image, then show the name to see if I got it right. That sort of thing.
I think I know how to do most of what I plan.
At the moment, I'm stuck on a basic problem, and I hope someone will help
un-stick me.
I want to be able to make a new card, quickly and conveniently, type the name
of the species into a field designated for that purpose, then paste several
images onto the card -- as many as desired.
The first thing you really need to do is set up a template card with
your textField; perhaps
with a button next to it with the following type of script in it:
on mouseUp
if the visible of field TWEET is true then
set the visible of field TWEET to false
else
set the visible of field TWEET to true
end if
end mouseUp
and a pair of navigation buttons to trot back and forth between your cards.
You can then duplicate the template as many times as you like:
Edit/Duplicate Card
(this ONLY works when you have the Object Inspector open for the card).
The total area of the images will be quite a bit larger than the total area of
the card, so I want the images to scroll vertically while retaining their
positions, relative to each other. I don't mind dragging the new images to
their desired locations manually.
There's something basic I'm not getting.
I thought if I pasted several images onto a card, scroll bars would magically
appear, which would scroll the images as a group. Not happening. Maybe
backgrounds scroll but stacks and cards don't?
Hyuck, hyuck, hyuck. The difference between Livecode and yer
bog-standard flashcard thingy
is VAST; Livecode is a full-blown programming language.
If you import a folder of images onto a card: File/Import As Control/All
Images In Folder . . .
select them all: Edit/Select All
then select Object Inspector: Object/Object Inspector
then look at Align Objects: Distribute/Edge To Edge
then Group them: Object/Group Selected
then look at Size Position in the Object Inspector and CENTRE your group,
set the group's width height to what you want,
then look at Basic properties in the Object Inspector and select the
Horizontal scrollbar.
At this point you should have a number of pictures of tweety-birds in a
group such that you
can only see one picture at a time, and you can scroll left right
between them.
I made a scrolling group, pasted multiple pictures in it. That works on one card. But if I set bgBehavior to
true, then new card duplicates all the pictures, and the pictures are shared between
cards. I want different pictures on each card. If I set bgBehavior to false, making a new card
becomes complicated.
(I'm a hyperCard retread, so setting bgBehavior to false don't come natchrel.)
Sadly, I have a feeling you will have to do this manually; or go a
totally different route . . .
call your template card TWEETY via the Obj. Inspector.
Your template should NOT contain any images.
So; let's have a button on the template card called DO IT BABY with
the following sort
of script:
on mouseUp
clone card TWEETY
set the name of card TWEETY to TWEETY2
--obviously this is a bit daft, you could have a field that counts the
cards and assigns them numbers as they are cloned---
{this is where you can have your import routine}
select all
--this is where I get stuck as I cannot, for the life of me find out the
language equivalents of
the alignment commands in the Obj. Inspector--
group the selected
call it BLUETIT
move group BLUETIT to 400,400 --always supposing your stack is 800,800--
set the width of group BLUETIT to 700
set the height of group BLUETIT to 600
set the hScrollbar of field BLUETIT to true
end mouseUp
I don't need detailed instructions or scripts. Just a few hints.
Maybe I need to make a scrolling stack with scrollbar buttons, which I would
script as needed, instead of depending on the native scroll bars you get with a
scrolling group? Hmm... In that case, I guess I'd need to place the scroll bars
on each new card...
Maybe I need to place a different group on each new card with bgBehavior set to false?
Maybe a new card button with a script that places a new group on the new
card, sets its rect and size and other characteristics?
Maybe there's more than one way to do what I want... probably so...
Thanks in advance.
Tim
Sorry; I have a feeling all this will do is make you reach for the aspirin.
Richmond Mathewson.
Re: nuther new newbie nuisance
Thanks, Keith, Slava and Richmond, Hmm... Tricky... The database suggestion is reasonable, but I never learned how to use a database with LC. As a pathetic hyperCard retread, I tend to think of LC as a database! I want to be able to see multiple photos of the same bird at the same time, to get a gestalt of the bird's appearance, from different angles. Hence the desire for a scrolling field or group containing many images of the same species. I'm accustomed to groups of fields, with different content on different cards. The analogy to images threw me off. With grouped images (as opposed to fields), it's as if share text is always set to true. Having read the helpful replies, slept on it, and tried a bit more trial and error... I think maybe the way to do it is to make a scrolling group of several empty picture placeholders -- image areas is the correct terminology, I guess. For each card, I'll store a list of locations of desired images in a field. (The locations will be on my hard disk, outside of LiveCode.) When the card opens a script will read through the field and put the images in the image areas, by setting the source. That will work won't it? There will be complications arising from different image sizes and shapes. Image areas resize to fit the source image. I suppose I could get the image rects, after setting the sources, then move them around by script so they don't overlap. Or, to keep it simple, I could use an image editor to make the source images all the same size. I'm still interested in hearing other suggestions. As I recall, it's possible to get a field to display an image, though I can't remember how. It's probably not possible to get multiple images to display in one scrolling field, though. True? Cheers, Tim On Jun 14, 2011, at 11:37 PM, Keith Clarke wrote: Tim, Perhaps have a set of 'view' cards, together with an 'input' card (or substack) for data entry that traps the various videos and field data, This input card could have a 'save' button script to create the new 'view' card, copy the images and data to specific locations and add them to the appropriate correct scrollable groups (not set as background)? This 'input' card could then be replicated to make an 'edit' view? Best, Keith.. ___ 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: nuther new newbie nuisance
So; I wrote this to Timothy Miller:-
on mouseUp
clone card TWEETY
set the name of card TWEETY to TWEETY2
--obviously this is a bit daft, you could have a field that counts the
cards and assigns them numbers as they are cloned---
{this is where you can have your import routine}
select all
--this is where I get stuck as I cannot, for the life of me find out
the language equivalents of
the alignment commands in the Obj. Inspector--
group the selected
call it BLUETIT
move group BLUETIT to 400,400 --always supposing your stack is
800,800--
set the width of group BLUETIT to 700
set the height of group BLUETIT to 600
set the hScrollbar of field BLUETIT to true
end mouseUp
and, later in the day began to feel queasy because of
find out the language equivalents of
the alignment commands in the Obj. Inspector
did some digging in the dox and got nowhere . . .
does anybody know them and/or where to find them?
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Re: nuther new newbie nuisance
Hi Richmond, Am 15.06.2011 um 18:34 schrieb Richmond Mathewson: So; I wrote this to Timothy Miller:- ... end mouseUp find out the language equivalents of the alignment commands in the Obj. Inspector set the left/top/right/bottom of YYY to the left/top/right/bottom of XXX Where XXX is line 1 of the selectedobjects and YYY all or any other line(s). You get the picture. did some digging in the dox and got nowhere . . . does anybody know them and/or where to find them? See above, no docs, just pure logics :-D Best Klaus -- Klaus Major http://www.major-k.de kl...@major.on-rev.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
Re: nuther new newbie nuisance
On Jun 15, 2011, at 10:34 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote:
So; I wrote this to Timothy Miller:-
on mouseUp
clone card TWEETY
set the name of card TWEETY to TWEETY2
--obviously this is a bit daft, you could have a field that counts the
cards and assigns them numbers as they are cloned---
{this is where you can have your import routine}
select all
--this is where I get stuck as I cannot, for the life of me find out
the language equivalents of
the alignment commands in the Obj. Inspector--
group the selected
call it BLUETIT
move group BLUETIT to 400,400 --always supposing your stack is
800,800--
set the width of group BLUETIT to 700
set the height of group BLUETIT to 600
set the hScrollbar of field BLUETIT to true
end mouseUp
and, later in the day began to feel queasy because of
find out the language equivalents of
the alignment commands in the Obj. Inspector
did some digging in the dox and got nowhere . . .
does anybody know them and/or where to find them?
As far as I know, the alignment tools in the object inspector are simply
implementing common 'set the x of obj y to the x of obj z' statements. EG.,
set the left of button 1 to the left of button 2 -- which button is the anchor
being determined by which object was selected first.
If I'm wrong about this I'd like to know.
Devin
Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University
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Re: nuther new newbie nuisance
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Klaus on-rev wrote: Hi Richmond, Am 15.06.2011 um 18:34 schrieb Richmond Mathewson: So; I wrote this to Timothy Miller:- ... end mouseUp find out the language equivalents of the alignment commands in the Obj. Inspector set the left/top/right/bottom of YYY to the left/top/right/bottom of XXX Where XXX is line 1 of the selectedobjects and YYY all or any other line(s). You get the picture. did some digging in the dox and got nowhere . . . does anybody know them and/or where to find them? See above, no docs, just pure logics :-D Best Klaus -- Klaus Major http://www.major-k.de kl...@major.on-rev.com In addition to left/top/right/bottom, there is also loc. ~Roger ___ 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: nuther new newbie nuisance
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Roger Eller wrote: In addition to left/top/right/bottom, there is also loc. ~Roger and width and height (probably others too). ~Roger ___ 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: nuther new newbie nuisance
Hi Roger, Am 15.06.2011 um 18:47 schrieb Roger Eller: On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Klaus on-rev wrote: Hi Richmond, Am 15.06.2011 um 18:34 schrieb Richmond Mathewson: So; I wrote this to Timothy Miller:- ... end mouseUp find out the language equivalents of the alignment commands in the Obj. Inspector set the left/top/right/bottom of YYY to the left/top/right/bottom of XXX Where XXX is line 1 of the selectedobjects and YYY all or any other line(s). You get the picture. did some digging in the dox and got nowhere . . . does anybody know them and/or where to find them? See above, no docs, just pure logics :-D Best Klaus -- Klaus Major http://www.major-k.de kl...@major.on-rev.com In addition to left/top/right/bottom, there is also loc. Really? :-) ~Roger Best Klaus -- Klaus Major http://www.major-k.de kl...@major.on-rev.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
RE: nuther new newbie nuisance
This is a brilliant idea (using a character as a placeholder for an image), but what's the advantage of having a bunch of images in a scrollable field vs. a series of images with the Next and Previous (and maybe Any) buttons? And maybe an option for placing up to four reduced images on the card at the same time, for comparison? Scrolling is a pain to begin with. The order of images in the scrolling presentation will always be the same. There will always be partial images on the screen as you scroll--just the head or just the legs. If you have a series of images, each stored in its own location, you can call them up in any order, including random order, and arrange them any way you like. S. -Original Message- From: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode- boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Nonsanity Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 12:48 PM To: How to use LiveCode Subject: Re: nuther new newbie nuisance If you want to stick with what you are familiar with, just to get the project done, try looking up imageSource in the dictionary. With that, you can change a character in a text field to be an image. So make a background field with fixedLineheight turned off, centered text, and a single character per line for each image you want on that card. You can store the images anywhere in the stack and then use their ids like so: set the imagesource of char 1 of fld 1 to 210096 set the imagesource of char 3 of fld 1 to 210067 set the imagesource of char 5 of fld 1 to 210097 (Note the use of odd number character indexes, so we don't replace the returns.) This way you have a simple scrolling list of images that's different on each card. I use this method myself quite a bit to make lists of images. You can have full control over selecting them and so forth, just as if they were text... Which as far as LC is concerned, they are at this point. ~ Chris Innanen ~ Nonsanity On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 2:13 AM, Timothy Miller gand...@doctortimothymiller.com wrote: Greetings, I thought I knew how to do this, but it isn't working out. I'm making a stack that will help me practice identifying birds. One card per species. Images and songs, mostly, plus a few fields for habitat, seasonality and so on. Some fields and buttons will be common to all cards, but most fields will not share text. Each card will have different images. Chances are I will gradually add fancy bells and whistles. I'll want to hide the name of the species, for instance, forcing myself to name the species by song or image, then show the name to see if I got it right. That sort of thing. I think I know how to do most of what I plan. At the moment, I'm stuck on a basic problem, and I hope someone will help un-stick me. I want to be able to make a new card, quickly and conveniently, type the name of the species into a field designated for that purpose, then paste several images onto the card -- as many as desired. The total area of the images will be quite a bit larger than the total area of the card, so I want the images to scroll vertically while retaining their positions, relative to each other. I don't mind dragging the new images to their desired locations manually. There's something basic I'm not getting. I thought if I pasted several images onto a card, scroll bars would magically appear, which would scroll the images as a group. Not happening. Maybe backgrounds scroll but stacks and cards don't? I made a scrolling group, pasted multiple pictures in it. That works on one card. But if I set bgBehavior to true, then new card duplicates all the pictures, and the pictures are shared between cards. I want different pictures on each card. If I set bgBehavior to false, making a new card becomes complicated. (I'm a hyperCard retread, so setting bgBehavior to false don't come natchrel.) I don't need detailed instructions or scripts. Just a few hints. Maybe I need to make a scrolling stack with scrollbar buttons, which I would script as needed, instead of depending on the native scroll bars you get with a scrolling group? Hmm... In that case, I guess I'd need to place the scroll bars on each new card... Maybe I need to place a different group on each new card with bgBehavior set to false? Maybe a new card button with a script that places a new group on the new card, sets its rect and size and other characteristics? Maybe there's more than one way to do what I want... probably so... Thanks in advance. Tim ___ 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
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As a side note, I designed the UI XML system used for Oblivion and Fallout 3 (I don't know if Bethesda is still using it for Skyrim), and it used an active version of this sort of relational layout. You could set the left of an image, for example, to always be the right of another image plus 10. Then if the other image moved, so would this one. As long as the engine could detect circular references, this made for quite a powerful layout engine. I've wanted to duplicate it in LC for some time now, and what with delving into the mobile market, I think it would be excellent for dealing with many different screen sizes and orientations. I still need to work out an simple way to add the new layout behaviors to objects that won't get too much in the way for the developer. (Too bad we can't have multiple behaviors for an object.) And if anyone is interested in details of the XML version, the docs I always wanted to write but never did have been wiki-compiled by fans here: http://cs.elderscrolls.com/constwiki/index.php?title=Category:Oblivion_XMLredirect=no ~ Chris Innanen ~ Nonsanity On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Roger Eller roger.e.el...@sealedair.comwrote: On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Roger Eller wrote: In addition to left/top/right/bottom, there is also loc. ~Roger and width and height (probably others too). ~Roger ___ 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: nuther new newbie nuisance
On 6/15/11 11:09 AM, Timothy Miller wrote: I think maybe the way to do it is to make a scrolling group of several empty picture placeholders -- image areas is the correct terminology, I guess. For each card, I'll store a list of locations of desired images in a field. (The locations will be on my hard disk, outside of LiveCode.) When the card opens a script will read through the field and put the images in the image areas, by setting the source. That will work won't it? That's how I'd do it. In fact, I have a commercial client product that does exactly that. Make sure you set the lockLoc of each image object to true so it won't auto-resize when you set its content. There will be complications arising from different image sizes and shapes. Image areas resize to fit the source image. I suppose I could get the image rects, after setting the sources, then move them around by script so they don't overlap. Or, to keep it simple, I could use an image editor to make the source images all the same size. Lock the screen, set the image filename, get the formattedheight and formattedwidth of the image, and then write a function to get the smallest ratio that will fit. Apply that ratio to the horiztonal and vertical dimensions and then set the size of the image to the new dimensions. I'm still interested in hearing other suggestions. As I recall, it's possible to get a field to display an image, though I can't remember how. It's probably not possible to get multiple images to display in one scrolling field, though. True? You can show as many images in a field as you want, but I wouldn't even consider this approach. You'd still need invisible dummy images on the card to serve as the source material, you'd still need to resize them to fit into the dimensions you want to display, and then after all that you'd need to add an additional step to insert them into the field. There's no reason not to just display the images themselves in a scrolling group. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.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
RE: nuther new newbie nuisance
Importing images and/or using imageSource will make a very big stack! It is often better to set the fileName of an image to an externally stored jpg, gif or png... eg: set the filename of image 1 to bird1.jpg If you have a lot of images, you could keep them in a folder then use a relative path instead... eg. set the filename of image 1 to ./myAppImages/bird1.jpg Hugh Senior FLCo ___ 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
