Blinking Font?

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• jdbc Member

  September 2014 edited September 2014

  Use Timer class and change text from visible to invisible and viceversa on every Timer event (0.1 seconds for example)

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  September 2014 edited September 2014

  or using GTween for more smoother animation

  local text= TextField.new(nil, "Click on the screen to start") text:setPosition(100, 100) stage:addChild(text) local tween1 = GTween.new(text, 0.5, {alpha = 0}) local tween2 = GTween.new(text, 0.5, {alpha = 1}, {autoPlay = false}) tween1.nextTween = tween2 tween2.nextTween = tween1

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• JDoef Member

  September 2014

  @ar2rsawseen GTween? I am sorry, I am not familiar with that term..

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• pie Member

  September 2014 edited September 2014

  @jDoef
  It's a wonderful class
  http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile/Gideros-GTween-with-easing

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• amin13a Member

  September 2014 Accepted Answer

  Hi JDoef
  Try this:
  
  local TestText = TextField.new(nil,"Blink!")
  local BlinkText = MovieClip.new{
  {1,30,TestText,{alpha={1,0,"linear"}}},
  {31,60,TestText,{alpha={0,1,"linear"}}}
  }
  BlinkText:setGotoAction(60, 1)
  BlinkText:setY(100)
  BlinkText:setScale(5)
  stage:addChild(BlinkText)

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• JDoef Member

  September 2014

  Thanks @amin13a! That code worked perfectly (of course I changed a couple of things to make it work for my game)!

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• yarnee Member

  September 2014

  R u sure it works also, in case the Text will be changed? I thought movieclip is more Static, so do prefer GTween

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• SimplesApps Member

  September 2014

  
  Hi @ar2rsawseen , @amin13a
  
  I've tested the blinking effect for a Shape with the GTween & MovieClip approach.
  In my game I'm trying to stop it when the time is over but the blinking goes on.
  
  For the GTween I add a "complete" event listener in order to setPaused(true) but it doesn't stop. For the MovieClip I stop it (function "stop()") but the clip doesn't stop either.
  
  How do I could stop the effect?
  
  Thanks,
  David.

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• SimplesApps Member

  September 2014

  
  Hi @ar2rsawseen , @amin13a again.
  
  It's my mistake because I was creating different clips every call, therefore with one stop() I only stop one clip (one call).

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• jdbc Member

  October 2014

  Hi JDoef
  Try this:
  
  local TestText = TextField.new(nil,"Blink!")
  local BlinkText = MovieClip.new{
  {1,30,TestText,{alpha={1,0,"linear"}}},
  {31,60,TestText,{alpha={0,1,"linear"}}}
  }
  BlinkText:setGotoAction(60, 1)
  BlinkText:setY(100)
  BlinkText:setScale(5)
  stage:addChild(BlinkText)

  I have tested you can get a better blink effect changing to

  
  local BlinkText = MovieClip.new{
  {1,30,TestText,{alpha={1,0.2,"linear"}}},
  {31,60,TestText,{alpha={0.2,1,"linear"}}}
  }
  

  Quite good for first scene.

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