Nutcracker: Enhancement, Text

[smeighan]

I have made these changes to teh text effect.

1) You now have a speed control, 1.0=normal speed
2) You now have a direction control. Valid values are: left, up, down
3) I changed when the scrolling text recycles. Before , if you had 10 characters of text and a 5 character wide tree, the recycle
would happen when the tenth character was displayed on the right side of your tree.

New method, now recycle is only based on the sequence duration. In the above example you might scroll 10 characters in 12 seconds, set sequence
timing to 16 seconds and your text will completely scroll off your display.

So what does it look like?

array_to_save
username   f
user_target   AA_MATRIX
effect_class   text
effect_name   DEMOTEXT_LEFT
text1   Merry Christmas
text2   TUNE to 88.5fm
window_degrees   360
text1_color   #FF0D05
text2_color   #2FFF05
frame_delay   100
topPixel   15
show_frame   n
speed   1
direction   left
seq_duration   16
fade_in   0
fade_out   0
submit   Submit Form to create your effect
OBJECT_NAME   text
batch   0

Scroll Left, speed=1.0



Scroll Left, speed =0.5



Scroll Left, speed =1.5


Scroll Up



Scroll down



Finally, the text will look different if the target is a mega tree, Here is the same text as above, direction up



i would suggest speeds of
0.25, 0.50, 1.0, 1.50, 2.0
experiment if you notice a flicker.

thanks

[jnealand]

Mine failing test now looks good.  Time to do some additional word testing.

[garyh]

Sean, I followed Steps 5 and 7 for a local install update.  I unzipped the zip file into the correct directory and redid my password.

When I try to use a text effect, I don't see the new options in my localinstall, but I see them on your internet website.

[smeighan]

Sean, I followed Steps 5 and 7 for a local install update.  I unzipped the zip file into the correct directory and redid my password.

When I try to use a text effect, I don't see the new options in my localinstall, but I see them on your internet website.

gary, my bad....


i have not bundled up the latest changes for the local installs.


let me go and do that ....

OK, They have all been committed now.
Please do steps (5) and (7) and you will have the latest code.

thanks!