ActionTimer Confusion: Can "Wait" be a first action? [solved]

[Mor3bane]

I have a slider skin that is a music player.

I am trying to ascertain the order of Actions to delay the contents of the 'opened' slide skin so they do not appear before the slide is finished - or with tweaking right at the moment the slide finishes.

I have tried a few brute force methods but they all turn out the same- the meters show up too soon.

Any help would be appreciated.

Oh, I think my code is "upside-down", but the mechanics are as intended currently.

Slide Player_1.0.rmskin

[jsmorley]

I'm not sure I follow what you are trying to achieve...

[Mor3bane]

I'm not sure I follow what you are trying to achieve...

Ok, I have the slide working - it is an image that splits horizontally and slides downward to expose the mechanics of the player.

When the slide is closed I will have a couple of basic widgets, but that isn't a thing right now.

What I am trying to achieve is for the buttons etc to only appear *after* the slider is fully opened - or if they can appear as it slides down that would be cool, but not necessarily important at this time.

So in pseudocode:

Image gets clicked
The slider slides down
Then after that happens the buttons and sound dial appear.

My issue is the ways I have tried up until now result in the buttons appearing instantly and the slider has not finished moving down all the way yet.

Does that make sense yet? I have had this idea for a while so my explanation may be a little weird

[jsmorley]

I don't see any buttons or sound dial...

[Mor3bane]

I don't see any buttons or sound dial...

Neither do I.
All there is, is the volume control so far - I didnt add a bunch of images that wouldnt work properly yet.
The way I have tried it with: (doesnt work right...)

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[MeasureSlider]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=ActionTimer
ActionList1=Repeat SlideUp, 2, 50
SlideUp=[!SetVariable State "2"][!SetVariable OffSet "(Clamp(#OffSet#-9,0,609))"]#R#[!HideMeterGroup vol][!UpdateMeter *][!Redraw]
ActionList2=Repeat SlideDown, 2, 50
SlideDown=[!SetVariable State "1"][!SetVariable OffSet "(Clamp(#OffSet#+9,0,609))"]#R#
DynamicVariables=1

[MeasureVolumeControl]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=ActionTimer
ActionList1=Wait 1800 | ShowVolume
ShowVolume=[!ShowMeterGroup vol]#K#

[MeterBase]
Meter=Image
ImageName=#@#Music Base.png
ImageTint=#Goth#
X=0
Y=(#OffSet#)
W=500
H=660
LeftMouseDownAction=[!CommandMeasure MeasureVolumeControl Execute 1]
LeftMouseUpAction=[!CommandMeasure MeasureSlider "Execute #State#"]
SolidColor=110,0,0,50
DynamicVariables=1
AntiAlias=1

Further code has the image meters grouped as Group=vol

[jsmorley]

Sorry, I'm just not following...

I see this:

Click to animate:

GIF.gif

What do you want it to do?

[Mor3bane]

Trying to get the volume control to appear *after* the slide completes.

Everything works except that. That is the problem.

[jsmorley]

Try this?

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[MeasureSlider]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=ActionTimer
ActionList1=Repeat SlideUp, 2, 50
SlideUp=[!SetVariable State "2"][!SetVariable OffSet "(Clamp(#OffSet#-9,0,609))"]#R#
ActionList2=Repeat SlideDown, 2, 50
SlideDown=[!SetVariable State "1"][!SetVariable OffSet "(Clamp(#OffSet#+9,0,609))"]#R#
DynamicVariables=1
IfCondition=#OffSet# = 450
IfTrueAction=[!ShowMeterGroup vol][!UpdateMeter *][!Redraw]
IfFalseAction=[!HideMeterGroup vol][!UpdateMeter *][!Redraw]

[jsmorley]

An alternative, that doesn't depend on a specific value for #OffSet#, would be:

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[MeasureSlider]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=ActionTimer
ActionList1=HideControls | Wait 1 | Repeat SlideUp, 2, 50
SlideUp=[!SetVariable State "2"][!SetVariable OffSet "(Clamp(#OffSet#-9,0,609))"]#R#
HideControls=[!HideMeterGroup vol][!UpdateMeter *][!Redraw]
ActionList2=Repeat SlideDown, 2, 50 | Wait 1 | ShowControls
SlideDown=[!SetVariable State "1"][!SetVariable OffSet "(Clamp(#OffSet#+9,0,609))"]#R#
ShowControls=[!ShowMeterGroup vol][!UpdateMeter *][!Redraw]
DynamicVariables=1

[Mor3bane]

Try this?

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[MeasureSlider]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=ActionTimer
ActionList1=Repeat SlideUp, 2, 50
SlideUp=[!SetVariable State "2"][!SetVariable OffSet "(Clamp(#OffSet#-9,0,609))"]#R#
ActionList2=Repeat SlideDown, 2, 50
SlideDown=[!SetVariable State "1"][!SetVariable OffSet "(Clamp(#OffSet#+9,0,609))"]#R#
DynamicVariables=1
IfCondition=#OffSet# = 450
IfTrueAction=[!ShowMeterGroup vol][!UpdateMeter *][!Redraw]
IfFalseAction=[!HideMeterGroup vol][!UpdateMeter *][!Redraw]

Love it!
Looks perfect, and I can now adjust for the other controls according to the #offset# variable.
Woo Hoo.

THANKS jsmorley