Need help with DesktopX scripting.

Published on August 6, 2008 By nimbletongue In DesktopX

Ok, I'll try to keep it simple and to the point, but I do tend to ramble on sometimes

I just started to mess around with widgets/objects. I'm made this wallpaper with hearts that look like gems surrounded by what looks like gold metal. Looks nice and what not but it needed more, so I decided to make widgets/objects to sit over the hearts (made from a screen shot of the desktop so it blends in perfectly) so when you mouse over them the gemmed heart would slide to the side like an elevator door to reveal pictures of loved ones behind it. Ok got that, works nice, I run my mouse over and the door opens and the picture shows, then returns to the static image as soon as its done unless my mouse stays on it. What I want it to do now is if you mouse over (or click it, if thats needed) it, is to have it run the anamaition of the "door" opening then stay on the picture of the person. Then the next time you mouse over (or click) it runs the anaimation in reverse closing the "door" and leaving it as the gemmed heart. Is there a script for doing this?

Comments

ZubaZ

on Aug 06, 2008

Moving this so it gets attention from th eDX Gods here.

SirSmiley

on Aug 06, 2008

There's a couple ways to do this. Need to clarify a few things first.

Are you just using two images, the heart and the picture? Or is your door an animated png?

nimbletongue

on Aug 07, 2008

Thx for the move

There's a couple ways to do this. Need to clarify a few things first.Are you just using two images, the heart and the picture? Or is your door an animated png?

Well, kinda both. The mouse away is a picture of the door closed. Then the mouse over picture is a animated png consisting of the door closed all the way to the picture. I'm sure there are better ways to do what I want it to do, I plan on tweeking as I go along.

SirSmiley

on Aug 07, 2008

Create the following four states:
1. open
2. closed
3. aniopen
4. aniclosed

Set "aniopen" state to your animated png and set to forward(assuming forward means open)
Set "aniclosed" state to your animated png and set to backward(assuming backward means close)
Set "open" state to the image when open.
Set "closed" state to the image when closed.
*Note: This could be done with two or three states but, trying to keep this simple.

Here's the script:

The speed of the timers on line 15 and 19 is the speed of your animation. For example this script use a 19 frame png with 25ms per frame for a total of 475ms.

Code: vbscript
Dim blnOpen
'Called on selected object state changes
Function Object_OnStateChange(state)
			If state= "Mouse up" Then
				Call Animation(state)
			ElseIf state="open" Then
				Object.KillTimer 1
			ElseIf state="closed" Then			
				Object.KillTimer 2
			End If
End Function
Function Animation(state)
	If blnOpen Then 
		Object.State="aniclosed"
		Object.SetTimer 2,480
		blnOpen=False
	ElseIf Not blnOpen Then 
		Object.State="aniopen"
		Object.SetTimer 1,480
		blnOpen=True
	End If
End Function
'Called when the script is executed
Sub Object_OnScriptEnter
Object.State="open"
blnOpen=True
End Sub
Sub Object_OnTimer1
Object.State="open"
End Sub
Sub Object_OnTimer2
Object.State="closed"
End Sub

nimbletongue

on Aug 08, 2008

thank you, it's very close to what I wanted. But it is still not quite right as I pictured it. Maybe it something to do with my png's. So I'll upload a basic set of my png's to maybe help.

My open state png

My closed state png

Ok, with the above script, 1st time I click it does this.

This is what happens on 2nd click.

Hope this helps me explain better, and thanks again with all the help so far.

This is what I want it to do.

nimbletongue

on Aug 08, 2008

Funny thing is, after I posted the above I decided to mess around with it. I deleted the open and closed state and boom, its just how I wanted it

SirSmiley

on Aug 08, 2008

Glad, you worked it out. If the last and first frames are the final respective frames than you do only need the two "ani" states. Since they are only activated on mouse down than they will remain on the ending frame of the animation.

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