alice-teacher Annoying pause at the end of each loop

[Kathleen Riley]

Setting animation style to "abruptly" did the trick! Thank you!

I realize now that I was already creating the "gentle" fade in and out that
I wanted in my code, so the "gentle" setting was making it look like it was
pausing.  That did the trick!

I attached the program (Alice 2)  in case anyone else is curious!


On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 6:17 PM, Leonel Morales <litomd at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Have you set the duration of all movements to the same amount? Be it 1
> second (default) or any other duration inside of each DoTogether all
> must be the same.
>
> Also, the animation style should be begin and end abruptly so the
> movement looks smooth.
>
> If possible, could you send your project to take a look?
>
> Regards,
>
> 2015-01-08 12:03 GMT-06:00, Kathleen Riley <kriley at bishopoconnell.org>:
> > Inspired by the question about falling snow, I made a simple snow scene
> > with four transparent .png panels with snowflakes in the foreground (one
> > that stays stationary, and three that:
> > (1) appear while moving down,
> > (2) disappear while moving down,
> > (3) reset to top while invisible,
> > and loop endlessly doing this.
> >
> > It looks great, EXCEPT that there is an annoying pause between each loop
> > iteration. Does anyone know whether there is a built in pause at the
> > comparison, and, if so, how to get rid of it?
> >
> > Here is some pseudocode for my loop, after a few lines of initial setup
> > code:
> >
> > LOOP FOREVER:
> >     DoTogether:
> >         Panel1 appear
> >         Panel1 move down .1 meter
> >         Panel2 disappear
> >         Panel2 move down .1 meter
> >         Panel3 move up .2 meter
> >
> >     DoTogether:
> >         Panel3 appear
> >         Panel3 move down .1 meter
> >         Panel1 disappear
> >         Panel1 move down .1 meter
> >         Panel2 move up .2 meter
> >
> >     DoTogether:
> >         Panel2 appear
> >         Panel2 move down .1 meter
> >         Panel3 disappear
> >         Panel3 move down .1 meter
> >         Panel1 move up .2 meter
> >
> > Any thoughts would be most welcome!
> >
> > --
> > Kathleen Riley
> > Bishop Denis J O'Connell High School
> > Arlington, Virginia
> >
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-- 
Kathleen Riley
Bishop Denis J O'Connell High School
Arlington, Virginia
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