Hello,
I am looking for a way to delay a certain action for a certain period of time. For instance, I have a book and want to flip the page when the mouse cursor is touch another Sketch. But, I want to delay the page flipping for a certain period of time instead of doing it right away because I want, for instance, to show a Text widget after the mouse cursor touched another Sketch, but before flipping the book page. Without delaying the flipping of a book page, I cannot even read the text in the Text Widget.
Related to this, I am wondering if I can play a short sound clip repeated in a script that is being executed repeatedly. I want to play a certain sound repeated while a sketch is roaming around the World. If I put the "play sound" tile in the script that will make the Sketch roam the World, I got echoes because the "play sound" is invoked before the previous execution of the previous call to "play sound" ends as I invoke this roaming script repeatedly (by clicking on its clock icon on the scriptor).
Is there a way to resolve these problems?
Thanks in advance.
Young-Jin Lee
I've made this simple project with a "delay object". You can duplicate it and change the execute action script to perform anything you want. Then you simply run the "startDelay:" script with the duration as a parameter. I hope you find it useful. I don't know if there is an easier way, though.
Cheers
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Young-Jin Lee youngjin.michael@gmail.comwrote:
Hello,
I am looking for a way to delay a certain action for a certain period of time. For instance, I have a book and want to flip the page when the mouse cursor is touch another Sketch. But, I want to delay the page flipping for a certain period of time instead of doing it right away because I want, for instance, to show a Text widget after the mouse cursor touched another Sketch, but before flipping the book page. Without delaying the flipping of a book page, I cannot even read the text in the Text Widget.
Related to this, I am wondering if I can play a short sound clip repeated in a script that is being executed repeatedly. I want to play a certain sound repeated while a sketch is roaming around the World. If I put the "play sound" tile in the script that will make the Sketch roam the World, I got echoes because the "play sound" is invoked before the previous execution of the previous call to "play sound" ends as I invoke this roaming script repeatedly (by clicking on its clock icon on the scriptor).
Is there a way to resolve these problems?
Thanks in advance.
Young-Jin Lee
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On Wednesday 18 November 2009 04:49:28 am Young-Jin Lee wrote:
I am looking for a way to delay a certain action for a certain period of time. For instance, I have a book and want to flip the page when the mouse cursor is touch another Sketch. But, I want to delay the page flipping for a certain period of time instead of doing it right away because I want, for instance, to show a Text widget after the mouse cursor touched another Sketch, but before flipping the book page. Without delaying the flipping of a book page, I cannot even read the text in the Text Widget.
Use a dummy hidden morph to track delay (say line). When the mouse touches another sketch, display the text widget, set line's heading to 0 and get it to rotate (say 5 degrees a second). When the line reaches a preset heading, hide the text widget, flip the page and stop the script.
Subbu
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