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[Kaz]

Hi all

I read of all these clever people making things rotate, but I just don't get it. According to my warped imagination, the code below should have the sprite in the entity in the node "png" spinning like topsy, but no. The sprite appears, but remains resolutely upright and immobile.

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var q = Scene.GetNode("png");
var r = q.GetSprite();
r.Rotatable = true;
while(true)
  {
  r.Rotate = 10;
  Sleep(100);
  }

I realise it's probably because I've got the whole concept wrong but after ages on the forum and the docs, trying this and that, I can't figure it out. Can somebody please point out what I've misunderstood?

Galaxy Quest - "explain as you would a child"

Thanks
 

[Mnemonic]

You only need to change the line to:

r.Rotate = r.Rotate + 10;

to keep increasing the angle.

[Kaz]

Nope. Change applied. Entity still as staunchly rigid as ever. No sign of rotation.

[Mnemonic]

Oh and you want to rotate the entity, not the sprite. So...

q.Rotatable = true;

q.Rotate = q.Rotate + 10;

[lacosaweb]

Oh and you want to rotate the entity, not the sprite. So...

q.Rotatable = true;

q.Rotate = q.Rotate + 10;

Maybe you need to give an initial value

q.Rotate=0;

else r.Rotate=NULL the q.Rotate = q.Rotate + 10 will not work.

[Kaz]

Setting q.Rotate = 0; first did it. That's great, thanks.

But should it work in a window, where a container 'EntImage' has an entity I want to rotate? I have a button with its own script that is supposed to start the entity rotating. No rotation is produced. Help please?

Thanks

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on "LeftClick"
  {
  var x = Game.MouseX;
  var y = Game.MouseY;
  Game.LockMouseRect(x,y,x,y);
  this.SetCursor("scenes\black\RotateCursorP.PNG");
  Game.PlayMusicChannel(0, "scenes\black\StarsAndStripes.ogg", true);
  global w;  // Call the loaded window
  var i;
  i = w.GetControl("EntImage");
  i.Rotate = 0;
  while(true)
    {
    i.Rotate = i.Rotate + 10;
    Sleep(100);
    }
  }
on "LeftRelease"
  {
  this.SetCursor("scenes\black\RotateCursor.PNG");
  Game.StopMusicChannel(0);
  Game.LockMouseRect(0,0,0,0);
  }


[lacosaweb]

try with this:

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on "LeftClick"
  {
  var x = Game.MouseX;
  var y = Game.MouseY;
  Game.LockMouseRect(x,y,x,y);
  this.SetCursor("scenes\black\RotateCursorP.PNG");
  Game.PlayMusicChannel(0, "scenes\black\StarsAndStripes.ogg", true);
  global w;  // Call the loaded window
  var i;
  var e;
  e = w.GetControl("EntImage");
  i=e.GetEntity();
  i.Rotate = 0;
  while(true)
    {
    i.Rotate = i.Rotate + 10;
    Sleep(100);
    }
  }
on "LeftRelease"
  {
  this.SetCursor("scenes\black\RotateCursor.PNG");
  Game.StopMusicChannel(0);
  Game.LockMouseRect(0,0,0,0);
  }

this is the change:

e = w.GetControl("EntImage");
i=e.GetEntity();

[Kaz]

Thanks Lacosweb for your time and effort.

I put your suggestion in.

The result is that nonetheless, the entity remains as fixed and unmoveable as paint. Rotation is what it won't do
 
Is there some meaning of the word "Rotate" I haven't grasped? Have I got my entities wrong? Does it simply not work in a window?

BTW, this is a well-worn path - it's a jigsaw puzzle.

Any other thoughts, chaps?

Thanks

[Mnemonic]

In your original post you had the Rotatable = true line. I don't see it in the new script. Maybe that's the problem? Other than that it should work.

[Kaz]

Yup. Missed it. 

(With deft flick of ankle, plants own boot upon own jacksy)

Thanks for help chaps.