Posted by Onideus Mad Hatter on 02/06/07 13:41

On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 23:14:25 +1100, "Jeckyl" <noone@nowhere.com> wrote:

>> sometimes it looks
>> like it's being skewed out of proportion (or rotated slightly).
>
>That's because the script is set to rotate it slightly .. there's a in the
>onLoad where you get set a = 0 for no rotation

Ahhh, I see...I didn't actually look at the code I just threw it in to
see what would happen. I'll take it apart later and reassemble my own
version of it, see if I can't make it work more like I need it to.

I'll tell ya what it ~could~ work for, teh grumpus lily pad! I've
been playing with the idea of creating a kind of "character" or
mascot, this little floating lily pad:
http://www.backwater-productions.net/_images/_Scraps/Random_Ideas.png

And basically he'll float around on the screen and then if you "touch"
him with the mouse he'll get all upset and try and "get away" from
you. He'll have little sayings like, "Go Away", "Leave Me Alone",
"Hiss Hiss" and "Quit Molesting Me"...it's gonna be pretty damn
entertaining.

His movement needs to be pretty fluid and he has to be ably to rotate,
so once I take apart the code I should be able to rebuild it for use
with that...if I decide to use him. I'm still trying to figure out
what direction I want to take with the Backwater site. So far I just
have found like ~the~ style, not like with the new CB site where the
current style is just like ~perfect~ (at least as far as my tastes).

>> at least not with the kind of effect I'm looking for.

>That's part of the problem .. as I don't really know what it is you are
>wanting to achieve. Its probably one of those 'I know it when I see it'
>things :)

Well, it's basically like a lily pad in water with a string tied
underneath it going to the bottom. So it would sorta float like your
code (sans the rotation), but it needs to be bounded more and with
less movement or more subtle movement, sometimes not even really
moving at all for a few seconds. See the idea is to give the
interface a more natural or "living" feel but it still needs to remain
function, which is why I can't have the thing just floating all over
the place, it needs to be restricted to like no more than 3 or 4
pixels in any direction from its original point.

I'll try and play around with your code though, see what I can do with
it.

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