move to the points of graphic

[Samuele]

hi, i've encountered a minor problem when livecode runs this script

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on GameOver
   show image "GameOverSign"
   move image "GameOverSign" to the points of graphic "Curve" in 3 seconds without waiting
   show graphic "GrayThing"
   show field "RestartInfo"
end GameOver

it shows it in fragments and not clear is there a better way? thanks.
and another question, how can i make something happen after the image finishes the 'path'?

[richmond62]

https://www.mail-archive.com/use-liveco ... 86523.html

How about inserting something like this into your script:

set the visible of image "GameIsFinished" to true

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on GameOver
   show image "GameOverSign"
   move image "GameOverSign" to the points of graphic "Curve" in 3 seconds without waiting
   show graphic "GrayThing"
   show field "RestartInfo"
   wait 3 secs
   set the vis of image "GameIsFinished" to true
end GameOver

[dunbarx]

Hi.

How many points are there in grc "Curve? I assume not hundreds.

If you specify three seconds, and there are only handfuls or so of points, you must understand that LC is merely following your instructions. To smooth out the action, you must increase the number of points in the graphic, possibly dramatically. Can you do this?

Craig.

[Samuele]

How many points are there in grc "Curve? I assume not hundreds.

i don't know but from this screenshot

Immagine 2022-01-14 024005.png (3.86 KiB) Viewed 5979 times

yo can see that the silidebar is small so it goes down a lot, the strange thing is that the problem has arisen only recently and for example before it wasn't there.
thanks

[dunbarx]

Looks like a fair number of points. Ask:

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answer the number of lines of the points of grc "curve"

Craig

[Samuele]

Hi, the aswer that came up is "395".
Thanks.

[richmond62]

it shows it in fragments

Do you mean that you cannot see the image as it moves properly?

[richmond62]

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Well, I had some fun today.

630 points.

[Samuele]

Ok, so that's exactly my script but it doesn't do like that (well a few weeks ago, yes, but then I changed something and now it's weird). it's like livecode shows the image that i want to move to the points of the graphic then the moving stops and livecode hides the image then reshow it and move to the points of the graphic. all of this pretty fast, i checke for hide ans show scripts but i didn't find any relation to this script...

[richmond62]

If you want to you can either post your stack here, or, if you want it to be private,
you can send it to me as a private message and I can have a look at it.

[Samuele]

In the meantime i think the problem is in this code but i can't quite understand where.

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else if field "timer" = 0 
      then
      GameOver
      aeStopMoving "all"
      DisableObjects
      show button "Restart" with visual effect dissolve very fast
      show widget "Info" 
      show widget "Home" 
      show widget "Settings" 
      HighScore
      HideBonuses
   end if
end ActivateTimer

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on GameOver
   show image "GameOverSign"
   move image "GameOverSign" to the points of graphic "Curve" in 3 seconds without waiting
   show graphic "GrayThing"
   show field "RestartInfo"
end GameOver

Thanks!

[Klaus]

Buonasera Samuele,

I think the "visual effect" kills your "moving".
Comment that line out or leave the effect out and see if that works as exspected:

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else if field "timer" = 0 
      then
      GameOver
      aeStopMoving "all"
      DisableObjects
      ## show button "Restart" with visual effect dissolve very fast
      show button "Restart"
      show widget "Info" 
      show widget "Home" 
      show widget "Settings" 
      HighScore
      HideBonuses
   end if
end ActivateTimer

If it works then the visual effect is the problem.
Remember that LC is very fast, so all this:

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...
     GameOver ## including the moving image!
      aeStopMoving "all"
      DisableObjects
...

will take a millisecond or less, so LC will try to let the visual effect happen at the same time
as moving the image and that does not work since visual effects will always lock the screen!

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-> show button "Restart" with visual effect dissolve very fast

Obviously we cannot have both...


Best

Klaus

[Samuele]

allright, thanks, i tried without the visual effect and it doesn't solve the problem entirely, it's only faster but the problem remains.
thanks

[Klaus]

OK, as othe already said, there may be just too many points in the graphic, try to reduce them.

From your screenshot you could e.g. remove coublettes

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159,9
159,9
...

And you will not need every pixel so you could remove some steps.
Instead of:

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159,9
159,10
...
159,15
159,16
...

Use:

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159,9
159,15
...

and not every pixel in beetween!
That way your movement will be much smoother, which is you current problem, right?

[richmond62]

coublettes

Um; 'doublets' ?