Timing animation in a script?

[Michiel Spape]

Hi,
What do you mean by 'show animation I created in..'? Are you trying to show an avi file, for example, or alternatively, move a picture across the screen in 600 ms (say, 1 pixel each 20 ms)? For the latter, I typically set start and end points, and check every time whether the 600 ms have passed. If one would, for example, have an imagedisplay, myDisplay, showing a picture at x,y = 300,400, then moving it, this would be possible:

Dim starttime as long
Starttime = clock.read
While (clock.read - starttime) < 600 do
	myDisplay.x = myDisplay.x + 1
	myDisplay.y = myDisplay.y + 1
	myDisplay.run
Wend

With the image being in the unreferenced objects ('deleted', which makes a mess of your experiment, but using goto loops isn't that transparent either).

For the former, I do not see why one would want to use a while...loop. Isn't the duration/offset enough to time it properly (though i have never used avi files, I wouldn't be surprised if this would be the case)

Best,
Michiel



Michiel Spapé
Research Fellow
Perception & Action group
University of Nottingham
School of Psychology

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Subject: Timing animation in a script?


Hi

I would like to show animation I created in a Do..While loop for about
600 ms.  Does anyone know the best way to do this?

Thanks

Cindy


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