Mark's Taskbar v2

 

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Taskbar Behavior

property backSprite, speed, buttonString, direction, holdOnMouseDown, mouseDetect, mouseTest property onStageTest, offStageTest, barBox, onStage, inLoc, rollSpeed, buttonList on getBehaviorDescription     return "Taskbar behaviour, by Mark Hagers." & return & "© 1997 Mediaeval Multimedia" & return & "email: mark@mediaeval.nl" & return & "Behaviour for a Win95 style taskbar sprite that will roll on/off stage depending on the mouse position." & return & "The initial position of the taskbar (during authoring) will be the 'on stage' position for the taskbar when the movie runs." & return & "To disable the taskbar in some frames, just remove it from the score in those frames (including it's gadget sprites)." & return & "The parameters for this behaviour:" & return & " - Roll on/off speed: controls the speed of movement on and off stage." & return & "   Setting this to zero will result in the taskbar (dis)appearing instantly." & return & " - Roll off direction: which direction the taskbar rolls off stage, usually, but not necessarily," & return & "   the edge of the stage where the taskbar sits."  & return & " - Gadget List: which sprites" && quote & "belong" & quote && "to the taskBar, they roll on and off together with it." & return & "   Just enter the appropriate sprite numbers separated by commas i.e.: 21,22,23,24,etc." & return & " - Mouse detection: Choose 'area' to let the bar roll on stage only when the mouse is within it's on-screen area," & return & "   choose 'border' to detect when the mouse is past the border of the bar closest to the center of the screen." & return & " - Fixed while mousedown: check this to prevent the bar from rolling off stage while the mouse is down." end getBehaviorDescription on getPropertyDescriptionList      if the currentspritenum = 0 then     set butdefault = []         set speeddefault = 0         else         set butdefault = string(the currentSpriteNum + 1)     set speeddefault = 10       end if      set description = [:]      addProp description, #speed, ¬   [#default:speeddefault,#format:#integer,#comment:"Roll-on/off speed:",#range:[#min:0,#max:100]]      addProp description, #direction, ¬   [#default:#bottom,#format:#symbol,#comment:"Roll off direction:",#range:[#bottom,#left,#top,#right]]      addprop description, #buttonString,  ¬   [#default:butdefault,#format:#string,#comment:"Gadget sprites:"]      addprop description, #MouseDetect,  ¬   [#default:#Border,#format:#symbol,#comment:"Mouse detection:",#range:[#border,#area]]      addprop description, #holdOnMouseDown,  ¬   [#default:true,#format:#boolean,#comment:"Fixed while mousedown:"]      return description end getPropertyDescriptionList -------- on beginSprite me   set buttonList = stringToList(buttonString)   set the backSprite of me = the spriteNum of me   set the barBox of me = the rect of sprite backSprite   put the backSprite of me + 1 into firstBut   set the inLoc of me = the loc of sprite the backSprite of me     initDir me   return me end on initDir me   put the frameTempo into tempo   put the stageBottom - the stageTop into stageHeight   put the stageRight - the stageLeft into stageWidth   case (the direction of me) of     #bottom:       put "the locV of sprite" && backSprite && ">" && the locV of inLoc into onStageTest       put "the top of sprite" && backSprite && "<" && stageHeight into offStageTest       if speed = 0 then         put (the stageBottom - the top of sprite backSprite) into roll       else put speed into roll       put point(0,roll) into rollSpeed       set mouseTest = "the mouseV >" && the top of sprite backSprite     #left:       put "the locH of sprite" && backSprite && "<" && the locH of inLoc into onStageTest       put "the right of sprite" && backSprite && ">" && 0 into offStageTest       if speed = 0 then         put the right of sprite backSprite into roll       else put speed into roll       put point(- roll,0) into rollSpeed       set mouseTest = "the mouseH <" && the right of sprite backSprite     #top:       put "the locV of sprite" && backSprite && "<" && the locV of inLoc into onStageTest       put "the bottom of sprite" && backSprite && ">" && 0 into offStageTest       if speed = 0 then         put the bottom of sprite backSprite into roll       else put speed into roll       put point(0,- roll) into rollSpeed       set mouseTest = "the mouseV <" && the bottom of sprite backSprite     #right:       put "the locH of sprite" && backSprite && ">" && the locH of inLoc into onStageTest       put "the left of sprite" && backSprite && "<" && stageWidth into offStageTest       if speed = 0 then         put (the stageRight - the left of sprite backSprite) into roll       else put speed into roll       put point(roll,0) into rollSpeed       set mouseTest = "the mouseH >" && the left of sprite backSprite   end case   if mouseDetect = #area then set mouseTest = "inside(point(the mouseH, the mouseV), barBox)" end on prepareframe me   if value(mouseTest) then     moveIn me   else moveOut me end on moveOut me   if holdOnMouseDown and the mouseDown then     -- hold buttonbar onstage   else     if value(offStageTest) then       set the loc of sprite backSprite to rollSpeed + the loc of sprite backSprite       repeat with i in buttonlist         set the loc of sprite i to rollSpeed + the loc of sprite i       end repeat     end if   end if end on moveIn me   set onStage = value(onStageTest)   if onStage then     set the loc of sprite backSprite to - rollSpeed + the loc of sprite backSprite     repeat with i in buttonlist       set the loc of sprite i to - rollSpeed + the loc of sprite i     end repeat   end if end on stringToList spritestring   set newList = []   do "set newList = [" & spritestring & "]"   return newList end