Neat trick to shake the menu at start.....

[AGRO]

on the project settings, just for this demo, on actions, OnInitilize, then choose on the left for actions Window.Move
and then choose the Xcoordinate to like 50 and then the Ycoordinate to 50 also, leave the width and height Unabled. Then choose another action Window.move, Xcoordinate to like 50 and then the Ycoordinate to 60. Just 10 pixels off. then choose both actions in the panel by control and then click both, then copy and paste about 20 times. you will see this below...

preview and upon startup, you will see the ams window shake and then stop at X=50 Y=60. Just did it. I love tricks!!! Using this theory you can make the window move wherever you want. You can use this to make the window move when ever you want, upon any action. Nice feature!!!

Eric

[Adam]

Re: Neat trick to shake the menu at start.....

I made a pretty cool menu while testing these actions. Using while loops and variables I made the menu start very small in the top left corner of the screen and grow and move until it hits the desired location on the users screen. I would like to see the Window.Move() action tested on all available OS.

Win 95B
Win 98/98SE
NT 4/SPx
Win 2000/SPx
Win ME
Win XP/XP Pro

Please post if you have tried this action on any of these OSs

[unknown user]

Re: Neat trick to shake the menu at start.....

Adam,
Have tried the Window.move on XP pro and everything seemed to work well.
Tempted to set up another computer to try some of this stuff out on earlier Windows. Is there one WinOS in particular that testers have so much less of than the rest? I have all versions of windows to play with.

[Adam]

Re: Neat trick to shake the menu at start.....

I would like to see it tested on some NT4 machines. The most common OSs that are used by our testers are WinXP, WIN200, and Win 98. So these probably don't need to be tried as much. Win 95B would also be useful.

[AGRO]

Re: Neat trick to shake the menu at start.....

Adam, I would be curious what your menu looks like, with all the variables and loops.
here is the pic again. server is down.

Eric

[unknown user]

Re: Neat trick to shake the menu at start.....

Adam, No problem.
I'll see if i can get both NT4 & 95B set up.
Can you post a zip containing the one you made and i'll test it on both if i can.

[Adam]

Re: Neat trick to shake the menu at start.....

Here is a little action script that you can import to your menu. It may not work that good on lower res systems, but it looks pretty cool on my system 1024x768.


http://www.icynorth.com/~adam/GrowingMenu.xml

[Ted]

Re: Neat trick to shake the menu at start.....

What's cool is that you could just put the Window.Move into a loop rather than 20 individual commands. Sweet.