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author | Kartik K. Agaram <vc@akkartik.com> | 2022-06-09 13:45:52 -0700 |
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committer | Kartik K. Agaram <vc@akkartik.com> | 2022-06-09 13:47:41 -0700 |
commit | fe170fc579cc084061f6dce70aa9b4e966148ca7 (patch) | |
tree | 3ff48d57828ec7c96c7f7ba32564fb58d625b0ca | |
parent | 25190676ea2a7cee59c57506ccefaed82ee6fb79 (diff) | |
download | view.love-fe170fc579cc084061f6dce70aa9b4e966148ca7.tar.gz |
experiment: blinking cursor
I've tried to keep the time period of the blinking similar to my terminal. Honestly I'm no longer sure if any of my experiments are showing a statistically significant result. Let's see how it feels over a period of time.
-rw-r--r-- | main.lua | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | text.lua | 9 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/main.lua b/main.lua index 2812dd5..9b6fb35 100644 --- a/main.lua +++ b/main.lua @@ -82,6 +82,9 @@ Search_backup = nil -- stuff to restore when cancelling search -- resize Last_resize_time = nil +-- blinking cursor +Cursor_time = 0 + end -- App.initialize_globals function App.initialize(arg) @@ -249,6 +252,7 @@ function App.draw() end function App.update(dt) + Cursor_time = Cursor_time + dt -- some hysteresis while resizing if Last_resize_time then if love.timer.getTime() - Last_resize_time < 0.1 then diff --git a/text.lua b/text.lua index b8c3909..69b8c37 100644 --- a/text.lua +++ b/text.lua @@ -85,9 +85,12 @@ end -- draw with small line_width of 100 function Text.draw_cursor(x, y) - love.graphics.setColor(1,0,0, 0.8) - love.graphics.rectangle('fill', x,y, 3,Line_height) - love.graphics.setColor(0,0,0) + -- blink every 0.5s + if math.floor(Cursor_time*2)%2 == 0 then + love.graphics.setColor(1,0,0) + love.graphics.rectangle('fill', x,y, 3,Line_height) + love.graphics.setColor(0,0,0) + end Cursor_x = x Cursor_y = y+Line_height end |