how can aeMoveTo trigger another aeMoveTo

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how can aeMoveTo trigger another aeMoveTo

Post by niconiko » Thu Jun 03, 2010 6:11 am

Hello.

I'm trying to use this code for a chain-reaction collision between an indefinite number of text-fields which have been set with constrainRectangular

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on constrainRectangularCallback
   put the loc of me into tGrabbedLoc
   put the rect of me into tGrabbedRect
   put the objects of this card into tStationaryFields
   filter tStationaryFields with "*pasted object*"
   filter tStationaryFields without (the name of me)
   repeat for each line tStationaryField in tStationaryFields
      put word 2 of tStationaryField into tStationaryFieldName
      replace quote with "" in tStationaryFieldName
      put the rect of field tStationaryFieldName into tStationaryRect
      put the loc of field tStationaryFieldName into tStationaryLoc
      put intersectrect(tGrabbedRect,tStationaryRect) into tIntersectRect
      
      if tIntersectRect <> "false" then

         ## The grabbed field has been bumped into a stationary field.

         put tGrabbedRect & "|" & tStationaryRect into tTheTwoRects
         switch directionToNudgeTheStationaryRect(tTheTwoRects)

            case "nudge stationary to the right"

               put item 1 of tStationaryLoc + \
                     (item 3 of tIntersectRect - item 1 of tIntersectRect) & comma & \
                     item 2 of tStationaryLoc into tNudgedLoc
               aeMoveTo the long ID of field tStationaryFieldName,tNudgedLoc,500,"out"
               break

            case "nudge stationary to the left"

               put item 1 of tStationaryLoc - \
                     (item 3 of tIntersectRect - item 1 of tIntersectRect) & comma & \
                     item 2 of tStationaryLoc into tNudgedLoc
               aeMoveTo the long ID of field tStationaryFieldName,tNudgedLoc,500,"out"
               break
         end switch
      else
         -- don't nudge
      end if
   end repeat
end constrainRectangularCallback

This online video illustrates part of what I'm after:

http://www.screentoaster.com/watch/stWE ... lcW1xcUFJS

In the video you can see three fields aligned from left to right : "Do", "am", and "are". When "Do" is grabbed and moved near "am", aeMoveTo causes "am" to get bumped away from "do".

So far so good.

My next goal is for "am" to also bump away "are" when it gets bumped close enough.

If there's something in ae that can make this easier, please let me know.

Thank you.

--
Nicolas Cueto

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