I helped Kelly resolve this so no need for others to answer.

Alan

On Apr 5, 2005, at 12:15 PM, Kelly Garcia wrote:

>
> Dear palace EXPERTS!
> I am not the best with scripts and I am having some
> troubles with the following scripts. 1st: the problem
> with the controllable animation script is it will not
> work, ???? I tried it in a room and gave up and used
> the basic animation and that works fine, but why not
> this controllable?? 2nd: I am having troubles
> figuring the x,x,y,y coordinates, I even asked someone
> and looked it up on different sites, I have many
> different windows and I want when you are over a
> window to have a message say where that window goes
> to, but the cooridinates will basically , but not
> perfectly work for message 1 but not the others
> I go to the top left of each window and use my pos
> command for my mouse than the bottom right of the
> window, & repeat, but when all is done the script
> makes the messages appear way off from the windows,
> except message 1 is almost right. I am a bit
> frustrated, can anyone help??? Please??? & thank you?
> -------------------------------------------------------
> ;Alan's controllable animation script
> ; - Animate upon room entry or when command entered.
> ; - Animate once or continuously.
> ON ENTER
> {
> animate GLOBAL
> loop GLOBAL
> manual GLOBAL
> startcmd GLOBAL
> stopcmd GLOBAL
> ;
> ;***Setup Parameters***
> 1 loop = ;0 to loop once, 1 to loop continuously
> 1 manual = ;0 to start on entry, 1 to make user
> start
> "start animation" startcmd = ;command to start
> animation
> "stop animation" stopcmd = ;command to stop
> animation
> ;***End of Setup Parameters***
> ;
> 1 animate =
> { "Say '" startcmd & "' to start the animation." &
> LOCALMSG
> "Say '" stopcmd & "' to stop the animation." &
> LOCALMSG
> } { 0 ME SETALARM } manual IFELSE
> }
>
> ON OUTCHAT
> {
> animate GLOBAL
> manual GLOBAL
> startcmd GLOBAL
> stopcmd GLOBAL
>
> ;start/stop animation
> { 1 animate =
> 0 ME SETALARM
> "" CHATSTR =
> } CHATSTR startcmd ==
> manual AND IF
> ;
> { 0 animate =
> "" CHATSTR =
> } CHATSTR stopcmd ==
> manual AND IF
> }
>
> ON ALARM
> {
> animate GLOBAL
> loop GLOBAL
> ;
> ;***Setup Parameters****
> 6 nbrpictures = ;number of pictures in this spot
> 60 dtime = ;time each picture is displayed.
> ;Each multiple of 60 is one second of display.
> ;***End of Setup Parameters***
> ;
> { ME GETSPOTSTATE 1 + nbrpictures % ME
> SETSPOTSTATELOCAL
> dtime ME SETALARM
> } loop NOT
> ME GETSPOTSTATE nbrpictures 1 - == NOT AND
> loop OR
> animation AND IF
> }
> -----------------------------------------------------
> ;Alan's mouseover script 1a
> ;This script displays a specified message at the mouse
> position when the mouse is over a specified area.
> ;Multiple message/locations can be specified.
> ;Place the following script in a spot:
> ON ENTER
> {
> 0 ME SETALARM
> }
> ON ALARM
> {
> [
> ;
> ;****Set message data: [ x_left x_right y_up y_down 0
> "message" ]
> [ 82 112 10 48 0 "Message 1" ]
> [ 260 293 20 54 0 "Message 2" ]
> [ 420 458 26 59 0 "Message 3" ]
> [ 80 120 106 143 0 "Message 4" ]
> [ 260 305 101 149 0 "Message 5" ]
> [ 430 465 114 152 0 "Message 6" ]
> ;***end of spot data***
> ] moarray =
> 0 i =
> { moarray i GET temparray =
> MOUSEPOS DUP temparray 2 GET >= SWAP temparray 3 GET
> <= AND
> SWAP DUP temparray 0 GET >= SWAP temparray 1 GET <=
> AND AND mouseover =
> {
> { temparray 0 GET temparray 1 GET + 2 / x =
> temparray 2 GET temparray 3 GET + 2 / y =
> "@" x ITOA & "," & y ITOA & temparray 5 GET &
> LOCALMSG
> } mouseover IF
> mouseover temparray 4 PUT
> temparray moarray i PUT
> } temparray 4 GET mouseover == NOT IF
> i ++
> } { i moarray LENGTH < } WHILE
> 30 ME SETALARM
> }
> ----------------------------------------------------
> Thanks for any help
> Kelly
>
> Huggs From KellyJean
> KellyJBG@...
> A Palace Chat Program Owner
> "Bridge of Dreams & Nightmares" Palace
> Palace addy: bodan.fastpalaces.com:9998
> 65.254.42.215:9998
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Alan Templeton
Sunnyvale, CA