Base conditions on visibility of objects
November 25, 2008 12:00 AM
After reading a thread (http://community.trivantis.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=6461&PN= 1) about invisible elements that become visible, I started thinking, "It would be pretty cool to fire an action based entirely on whether or not an image/text box is visible or not." So, here I am, making a suggestion.Although, it seems horribly inefficient to just allow all text boxes and images to show up as a variable in the conditional tag. That would get cumbersome very quickly! But, perhaps there could be a check box in the properties of each object that says, "Associate a variable with this object." I was thinking how cool it would be in the referenced link above to say, "Just add a value to _temp based on whether or not the transparent button is visible or not." Of course, I couldn't say that. I could have suggested a variable that changes when the button becomes visible, but that is an additional step. This could be expanded to more properties than mere visibility too! The conditional could also see if the X position is greater than, less than, or equal to a specific number. Size could also be checked. This could open the door to some more interaction. Right now, I believe that the best way to simulate this would be to assign a variable to each property and modify it as the properties change. For tasks that would require this tedium, such a feature could save a lot of time. Kevin
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