SpritePulsator

 

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Causes a sprite to "pulse" in and out in opacity by settable degrees at selectable rates.

-- By Warren "The Howdy Man" Ockrassa, warren@nightwares.com -- This causes any given sprite onscreen to "pulsate" in opacity -- Drag and drop to invoke the GPDL, then set the max and min opacity values (in percent) as well as the step value on GetBehaviorDescription   set sContent = "This allows any sprite to pulsate in and out in opacity." & RETURN & RETURN & "Parameters include maximum opacity, minimum opacity, and step value."   return sContent   END GetBehaviorDescription on GetBehaviorTooltip     set sContent = "This allows any sprite to pulsate in and out in opacity." & RETURN & RETURN & "Parameters include maximum opacity, minimum opacity, and step value."   return sContent   END GetBehaviorTooltip PROPERTY pnMySprite, pbFading, pnMaximumOpacity, pnMinimumOpacity, pnFadeStep on BeginSprite me     set pnMySprite = the currentSpriteNum   set the ink of sprite pnMySprite = 32 -- blend   END BeginSprite on PrepareFrame me     if the blend of sprite pnMySprite >= pnMaximumOpacity then     set pbFading = TRUE       else if the blend of sprite pnMySprite <= pnMinimumOpacity then         set pbFading = FALSE     end if     if pbFading then         set the blend of sprite pnMySprite = the blend of sprite pnMySprite - pnFadeStep       else         set the blend of sprite pnMySprite = the blend of sprite pnMySprite + pnFadeStep       end if   end PrepareFrame on GetPropertyDescriptionList me     if not ( the currentSpriteNum ) then         -- behavior has been dropped on the script channel; kickout     exit       end if   return [ #pnMaximumOpacity: [ #comment: "What is the MAXIMUM opacity you want in percent?", #format:  #integer, #default: 100, #range: [#min: 1, #max: 100] ], #pnMinimumOpacity: [ #comment: "What is the MINIMUM opacity you want in percent?", #format:  #integer, #default: 50, #range: [#min: 0, #max: 100] ], #pnFadeStep: [ #comment: "By what amount do you want the opacity to be stepped each time?", #format:  #integer, #default: 1, #range: [#min: 1, #max: 100] ] ]   end GetPropertyDescriptionList