Whenever I move a sprite using the following code, a black border will appear around it where there shouldn't be.
var navigate1 = new lime.animation.Sequence(
new lime.animation.MoveTo(675,230).setDuration(1),
new lime.animation.MoveTo(725,200).setDuration(1),
new lime.animation.MoveTo(735,180).setDuration(1));
Is it something do with the code, or the sprite image?
Refreshing the screen in anyway (such as resizing the browser) would make the black borders disappear.
I'm not exactly sure myself, but I believe what you need to do is create two rounded rectangles with a fill, make the inner one smaller than the outer one, then place the content inside of the inner rectangle, essentially layering the elements on top of each other.
I can't remember where I gotten this answer from (it should be a mailing list for LimeJS). This problem only occurs in LimeJS and seems to be related to the auto resizing of the scene. Putting the LimeJS scene into a which has a height and width set solves the problem.
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I have created a nice looking collection view with image cells inside. I wanted the cells to be round so I made maskToBounds equal to true and set the corner radius to half of the image's width. This all works fine but now I want to add shadow effects to the cells and there are 2 problems:
I want to have an outer shadow on some of the cells (which is currently being cropped off because I set masktoBounds to true...
I want t have an inner shadow effect on some other cells (they are supposed to look less highlighted), but I don't even know how to make an inner shadow...
Any help desperately appreciated,
I work with C# in Xamarin.iOS by the way, but I will also understand any other language.
Cheers!
Take a look to the UIView.Layer.ShadowX and play with the values of it I recommend to use an image instead to simulate the effect because the Layer effects will kill your device processor
Take a look at the XamSvg component. You create 2 svg with a gradient to mimics an inset and an outset. As it is an svg, it is stretchable and could be set as your cell's background to simulate your shadow.
I just bought the Apple Watch and I want to create a super simple game for it.
It is simple enough to only use monochrome color scheme, but advanced enough to have an object moving in real-time.
I am trying to figure out how to position an object on my Apple Watch with Watch OS 2.
I want to place my object somewhere on the screen (anywhere I'd like to) but there are absolutely
no way to do that, I think.
But, in the following library: https://github.com/shu223/watchOS-2-Sampler
the developer can actually animate the alignment of the image so I guess
that itself suggests it should be possible to somehow specify a point of where to position an object.
And the animation is pretty smooth as well.
I have tried to generate frames on-the-fly CGContext which uses Quartz 2D, but it's way too slow and the app on my Apple Watch just crashes.
I don't necessarily think that the watch itself is too weak, but some clever programming should solve my problem, but I just cant figure out how to do it.
As you already said there is no way to directly position an WKInterfaceObject on your watch. You can change the alignment of an object but that leaves exactly 3 positions: left, center and right. Probably not enough for your game.
What you could do: You can set a background image on a WKInterfaceGroup. So you could draw your game objects into an UIImage and set that as background image of that group. That background images can also be animated. So maybe you can draw the movement of your game object into several UIImages and then set those as animated background image.
One way that I have found to have a little more control over where a WKInterfaceObject is on the screen is to add it to a parent WKInterfaceGroup, and center your item (vertically and/or horizontally depending on how you want to move it). Then you can tweak the group's relative height / width (setRelativeHeight and setRelativeWidth) and it's alignment (setVerticalAlignment and setHorizontalAlignment) to get your item positioned where you want.
This doesn't give you the ability to tweak frames or give the item a particular coordinate, but it does give you the ability to programmatically move a WKInterfaceObject anywhere on the screen.
For example if you want your object in the exact center of the screen vertically, you leave the group's relative height to its container as 1, with your item centered. To get the object at 40% from the top, you can change the group's relative height to 0.8 and it's alignment to .Top. If you want it 60% from the top, the relative height would still be 0.8, but the group's vertical alignment should be .Bottom etc.
I know this is kind of a confusing way to have to accomplish this, but this worked for me in getting items positioned exactly how I wanted.
I've imported a vector layer from a psd into paint code v1, I'm trying to create a background image and make it universal.
I can't seem to add a frame around the vector, to complicate matters, I only need a portion, the center, of the layer. (The design is based around a circle, it has lines drawn towards the center of the circle.)
I can’t seem to add a frame to dynamically resize the part I need.
I found this http://www.raywenderlich.com/36341/paintcode-tutorial-dynamic-buttons the part about frame ans groups doesn't help me....
When I add a click frame and drag it around the area I need, it's at the same level as the vector layer. I've also tried adding a group around both, but that doesn't seem to obey the frame size either.
I’ve looked through the tutorials and googled adding a frame, but I can’t seem to achieve what I need.
EDIT
A frame is supposed to be at the same level as the vectors you're working with.
All you do then is set the resize rules of your vectors. There is a little rectangle in the frame's parameters interface with straight arrows and springs that you can modify to fit your wishes.
I think I also remember a checkbox setting to resize only what's inside the frame.
Now I haven't used PaintCode for a while, but if this doesn't help you, there probably is a problem with your vector layer.
I don't know if this information helps.
But if you resizing doesn't work as you expected. Look carefully at the transformation box (the one with the springs attached). When you have put a frame around your object. The middle dot in this box should be blue instead of green. if t's green, you may have a problem with the originating point of your objects and then the resizing may not work as you expected.
I'd like to build a menu of 'tiles' using SpriteKit. For simplicity, the tiles are SKSpriteNodes of all the same size, and are housed in a larger 'container' SKSpriteNode. The container node is a mask node, so only a subset of the menu tiles are shown at a given time. Dragging up or down on a tile should scroll the list of tiles up or down, respectively.
Right now, when a drag is detected over a tile, I just reposition all tiles up or down--easy. There are two other constraints on the problem, though. The top tile should never scroll below the top of the mask/container node. And, the bottom tile should never scroll above the bottom of the mask/container node. Taken together, this keeps the list of tiles from ever being completely dragged to a place where they are hidden/unreachable.
This problem seemed like it would be elegantly solved with either SKConstraints or SKPhysicsJoints. I've tried a lot of combinations, but nothing seems to give me the desired effect.
For instance, I've used an SKPhysicsJointFixed to pin each pair of neighboring tiles together. This has two problems--first, the tiles are 'sluggish' when dragged, so the finger drags more quickly than the tile to the point that it is no longer over the tile, and the drag stops being recognized as on the node. Second, this pin allows the tiles to rotate freely about the anchor point. I added an SKConstraint to restrict the z-rotation of every tile, but now the tiles can barely be dragged at all.
I tried implementing everything with just SKConstraints, so I wouldn't have to fuss with setting masses correctly, etc., in order to make the physics approach feel more usable. I added a constraint on the x position of every tile so that they could only be dragged vertically. Then, I added another with SKConstraint.distance(_:toNode:) on every pair of tiles to keep them separated by the correct vertical distance. The problem with this is, given two tiles, if I add this distance constraint on each, only the last tile to be given the constraint is allowed to move. It moves and the other tile follows this tile correctly. That other tile can't be moved at all, though.
Then there comes the problem of keeping at least some part of the set of tiles 'in bounds', so that they never are dragged completely outside of the mask node, and thus not visible/unreachable. A constraint/joint seemed like it might work here--add some constraint/joint to the bottom tile keeping it above the bottom of the mask node, and similarly for the top tile. But now, how do I use a constraint/joint to keep the bottom tile above the bottom of the bottom of the mask node but let it move below this point, and vice versa for the top tile?
Am I going about this all wrong? Is using constraints/joints not the correct approach? Obviously, I can hand code all of these restrictions, but it seems like constraints/joints would solve this problem so much more elegantly, while also letting me rely on the physics world for some springiness, flicking, etc. If there's a good way to do what I'm trying to do, would someone please provide a suggestion?
Many thanks!
Im a little bit lost on how to go about this, im really looking for the theory behind it im not 100% sure if the title is correct or not.
Im currently working on a iOS app and im a little stuck with the progress indicator thats been designed ive attached a image of it below
as you can see when the user progresses through the stages of the challenge the background of this image fills up with white so if they are in stage 1 of a 5 stage challenge its filled 20% stage 2 40% etc.
the issue I have is im not 100% sure how to go about this, if I was doing this in HTML i would create the image with the green background and leave the area for the rabbit and shape transparent and then create a div behind it that would change its height.
should I be applying the same principle to iOS development or should I be building it in a more programatic and efficient way.
thanks all for your help
The solution you are talking about sounds fine. Many programmatic solutions would involve masking and would probably be less performant (masking is actually quite expensive), other programatic solutions involve stroking different vector paths but that would get complicated if you want to cut them all of a the same line.
So, translating your idea into views. Create a container UIView with a light green background, and add to it a white UIView and an UIImageView (in that order to get the image on top). The image view would have the green image with transparency set as its image. The white view would start of being positioned below the light green view (have a frame with a higher y value) and as the stages progress you simply shift the white view upward by modifying it's center or frame properties. (note that y increases downwards).
This may be a childish way
Make an UIImageView and add that in your view where you place your rabbit view.
Make the width and x axis value as same of your rabbit view and change the height and y-axis value as the stages completes.
Add the rabbit view above your imageview.
In this way you can have not only color of your progress you can even assign a image in future to show the progress of the different changes.
-(void)completedStage:(int)stage
{
CGRect frame=rabbitimage.frame;
bgimageview.frame= CGRectMake(rect.orgin.x,rect.frame.orgin.y+rect.frame.size.height-stage*0.2,rect.frame.size.width,rect.frame.size.height-0*2)
}
Hope this helps !!!