I need help animating in TI-Basic. I know you can animate using the text( command and the sub-string command but I really have no idea how. I need some help and someone who can really teach me how to do this. Can someone please help me here?? Thanks a-ton


this is for a Ti 84+SE

I am simply trying to make an animation for the opening game screen, and I have no idea how to do it.

NON C. VERSION OF CALC.

Which calculator, and what type of animation? I know the cse has some libraries that can help with animations, but it depends which kind.

If you are trying to slide text across the screen, you can do this:


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But thats fairly cruel

What I think you could do for some sliding text would be:


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Take a look at this gif. The text is scrolling from right to left here:



Does that help?

Well, I did some testing, and this code should work for all lengths of words.

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You can decrease the rands to spead it up, and increase to slow down

However, it can easily be changed. I think it works pretty well. Here is the code:


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i could create a fairly complex(ish) one, but it depends on what you want. A simple text slide would work fine if you're not wanting anything too fancy, or you could get a bit more advanced (keeping it pure BASIC) and possibly lose a tiny bit of fps.

Here's an animation of mine, working on a 84+ SE, with MATHPRINT on.




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batman: Do you want the text to scroll across the screen the way Unicorn's is, or have it be all in a specific area with the text scrolling in the box? Also, if you use Text(~1,...,...,"Your Text"), you can make the text much larger and easier to read. I recommend doing this for the titles of menus, and not using the negative one for the options so that the title is a larger font size.

I second readroofs suggestion about larger text. You can probably add some Text( commands that make my code look a bit more seamless though.

thanks.

I think this wouldn't work since rand(4 would return 4 random numbers in a list, and randrandrandrand would return only 1, they don't do the same thing... (But I'd have to test it out to know for sure)