Always-there bar

This is a script that place an item (in the video a panel) always on top of the screen. Scroll down the desktop to show it. Scroll up to hide.

Pierre Hébert: you did it.

I’m not sure how, but with the synchronous scripts…all is beautiful 😀 Thanks!

Luckily I made a demonstration video with the 9.9.9 version. Another one with 9.9.10

I’m sure you will find the difference 😉 The change is awesome!

Instructions:

– Copy paste this script as a new one.

– IMPORTANT: you need to label “always-bar” the item you want to move

– Pin that item and detach it from the grid

– Set the script in the position change event of the desktop

Settings: you can change the velocity of scrolling. Just modify the numbers at the beggining of the script, nothing more

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/*Settings */

//this number means the velocity of showing/hidding respectively

//1 is the default ( like the desktop ) the bigger, the faster (avoid negative numbers, between (0,1) will be slower )

var vs = 2;//show

var vh = 0.5;//hide

var cont = LL.getEvent().getContainer();

//item to move

var bar = cont.getItemByLabel(“always-bar”);

if(bar==null){alert(“Warning: no item with label ‘always-bar’ found.”);return;}

/* current position

// in case don’t exist

//difference

//save

*/

var contpos = cont.getPositionY();

var prev = parseInt(bar.getTag());

var d = contpos-prev;

bar.setTag(contpos);

var barpos = bar.getPositionY();

var size=bar.getScaleY() * bar.getHeight();

var posx=bar.getPositionX();

/*hide the bar */

if(d>0 && barpos>-size){

if(barpos-d*vh<-size || barpos<-size){

bar.setPosition(posx,-size);

}else{

bar.setPosition(posx,barpos-d*vh);

}

}

/*show the bar */

if(d<0 && barpos<0){

if(barpos-d*vs>0 || barpos>0){

bar.setPosition(posx,0);

}else{

bar.setPosition(posx,barpos-d*vs);

}

}

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