Fade

...me again. Short question: How do I prevent the initial FADE?

what do you mean?

if you are using the fade behavior and don't want the initial fade-in, I guess putting the fade in time property to 0 should work.

if you just want to trigger the fade behavior whenever you want... Hum the behavior isn't really complete on that side. But you can do it like that :

Create a boolean instance variable for your sprite with the fade behavior. Let's call it fadeNow and put false as default value.

And do something like that :

Mouse: On Left button Clicked  
      -> Sprite: Set fadeNow to true
Sprite: [invert] is fadeNow 
      -> Sprite: Fade: restart fade

Yeah Fade needs more control, particularly a Start Fade, Stop Fade.

Thanks Yann....

...this makes FADE not realy usefull....in my mind

yeah I usually fade stuff by event.

I'm feeling like the first person to know this behavior, hehe :D

http://www.scirra.com/forum/behavior-gleam_topic46307.html

Good stuff. Fade is kinda weird but thx for the help. Gonna try and implement it.

If you want a "stop" function you can edit the behavior.

Add this to the edit js.

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

// Actions

AddAction(0, 0, "Restart fade", "", "{my}: restart fade", "Run the fade again.", "RestartFade");

AddAction(1, 0, "Start fade", "", "{my}: start fade", "Start the fade, if not active on start.", "StartFade");

AddAction(2, 0, "Stop fade", "", "{my}: stop fade", "Stop the fade.", "StopFade");

and this to the runtime.

     behinstProto.doStop = function ()

     {

          this.stage = 3;

          this.runtime.redraw = false;

     };

//////////////////////////////////////

     Acts.prototype.StopFade = function ()

     {

          this.doStop();

     };

You are basically saying, when Stop is called, trick it into thinking it is done. But don't reset anything.

04 Dec 2011

firebelly

04 Dec 2011

firebelly

I know! :( Figured someday someone might want it.