On 16 Dec 2003, at 20:12, kdf wrote:
> Quoting Phil Barrett <philb (AT) philb (DOT) co.uk>:
>> I'm not convinced the multi-player support is quite right yet - you
>> have a scalar $flakes_ref which is [re]set each time a player enters
>> the screensaver. I'm not entirely sure why it's needed at all, but if
>> it is I guess it needs to be a hash of references to arrays of hashes,
>> those arrays being the ones stored in %flakes, which is a hash of
>> arrays of hashes. Gotta love Perl!
>
> There might be a better place for it. Basically, I needed a way of
> initialising
> with the $client key. I can't do that outside of a subroutine since
> $client
> does not exist globally. Hence, its a hash reference to an array of
> hashes and
> a partridge in a pear tree... :) It should be ok to reset upon entry,
> since the
> screensaver does not re-enter its mode once engaged.
Sure? Even if player 2 starts the screensaver while player 1 is already
in it?
> I had it in the letitsnow
> routine at first, which was interesting..more like a meteor shower
> with them all
> disappearing before hitting bottom :)
But letItSnow knows about $client, and is the only place %flakes is
referenced, so why can't you just use @{$flakes{$client}} where I
originally had @flakes, instead of messing around with $flakes_ref?
>> There will be other snowy enhancements shortly, when I get some time.
>> And I might even get round to finishing the lyrics display as a
>> screensaver.
>
> that's the idea :)
> there are some improvements to teh animation for just such a thing.
> You can set
> the client params for scrollRate and scrollPause to control timing, as
> well as
> animateTop to choose either the static first line or the updating
> version.
>
> However, as Robert pointed out, you can write custom calls to
> animateWindowOverlay if needed. Look at the animateScrollBottom
> routine for an
> example of how to set up a wrapper. I'm still looking at ways to
> improve the
> animation routines, but its a steep learning curve. you may get it
> before i do :)
We'll see. One quick question - since I'll want to do all my own
animation, how do I prevent lines() being called from update() and the
result overwriting my handiwork? Do I simply not call $client->lines()
from my plugin?
And I'm sure once it's working the first question will be "why do I
have to wait until the screensaver kicks in before I can see the
lyrics?"
Phil