Thread: Fruit machine, hold buttons.

Originally Posted by LukeDavison

1) How do i get the pictures to do an animation spin like a reel? At the moment it just runs through the fruits and then stops and i'd like it to spin like a fruit machine reel and then stop, will i need to do some animation?

Sounds reasonable to me.

Originally Posted by LukeDavison

2) How do i get hold buttons to work? There will be 3 hold buttons and when the user clicks the hold button it will stop that picture from spinning. I've assigned a timer to each reel e.g. timer1, timer2, timer3 i've assigned it so when the hold button is clicked then the appropriate timer will stop e.g. timer1.stop(); but it will only stop the reel whilst it's spinning.

Instead of outright stopping the timer, signal that the animation should stop- either by stopping when the next picture is displayed, or having some kind of a countdown (so it doesn't stop on the absolute next one, but takes some time to slow down or something).

Thanks for your reply Kevin. I didn't really explain it clearly the first time but i wanted the hold buttons to stop the timer all together when clicked but when it was clicked the timer would still start and only stop half way through. That doesn't really sound like better explanation lol but it doesn't matter now, got it to work after hours of frustration and i appreciate your reply .