Animate Image Sequence

 

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The sprite will swap images at a steady rate, regardless of any updateStage commands (unlike film loops). Place this script on the sprite to animate, then set the rate you want it to animate at, and the number of images to animate. To use the script, sendSprite(whichSprite, #toggleBlink).

property blink, anim, animStart, animEnd, rate, inum, spriteNum, mySprite global trackAnim on beginsprite me   mySprite = sprite(spriteNum)   blink = TRUE   animStart = mySprite.membernum   animEnd = animStart + (inum-1)   anim = animStart   trackAnim = anim end beginsprite on enterframe me   if blink = TRUE then     anim = anim + rate     trackAnim = anim     if anim > (animEnd+1) - rate then       anim = float(animStart)     end if       mc = the number of chars of (string(anim)) - (the floatPrecision + 1)     theMem = value(char 1 to mc of string(anim))     mySprite.membernum = theMem   else     nothing   end if end enterframe on getPropertyDescriptionList me   pList = [:]   pList.addProp(#rate, [#format:#float,#default:.2,#comment:"Rate:"])   pList.addProp(#inum, [#format:#integer,#default:2,#comment:"Image Num:"])   return pList end getPropertyDescriptionList on toggleBlink me   blink = NOT blink end