1 ;;; animate.el --- make text dance
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5 ;; Maintainer: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
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25 ;; (animate-string STRING VPOS &optional HPOS)
26 ;; makes the string STRING appear starting at VPOS, HPOS
27 ;; by having each letter swoop into place from random starting position.
29 ;; animate-birthday-present was the first application of this program.
33 ;;; STRING is the string to be displayed,
34 ;;; and DEST-X, DEST-Y say where on the screen
37 ;;; This function returns a list describing
38 ;;; all the characters and the paths they should take.
39 ;;; Each element has the form
40 ;;; (CHAR START-Y START-X DEST-Y DEST-X).
42 ;;; The start position of each character is chosen randomly.
43 ;;; The destination is chosen to put it in the right place
44 ;;; in the string when the whole string finally reaches its
45 ;;; specified position.
47 (defun animate-initialize (string vpos hpos
)
48 (let ((characters nil
))
49 (dotimes (i (length string
))
51 (cons (list (aref string i
)
52 ;; Random starting positions.
53 (random (window-height))
54 (random (1- (window-width)))
55 ;; All the chars should end up
56 ;; on the specified line.
58 ;; The Ith character in the string
59 ;; needs to end up I positions later.
64 ;;; Display the characters in CHARACTERS,
65 ;;; each one FRACTION of the way from its start to its destination.
66 ;;; If FRACTION is 0, the characters appear in their starting positions.
67 ;;; If FRACTION is 1, the characters appear in their destinations.
69 (defun animate-step (characters fraction
)
70 (let ((remains (- 1 fraction
)))
71 (dolist (item characters
)
72 (let ((vpos (+ (* remains
(nth 1 item
))
73 (* fraction
(nth 3 item
))))
74 (hpos (+ (* remains
(nth 2 item
))
75 (* fraction
(nth 4 item
)))))
76 (animate-place-char (car item
) vpos hpos
)))))
78 ;;; Place the character CHAR at position VPOS, HPOS in the current buffer.
79 (defun animate-place-char (char vpos hpos
)
80 (goto-char (window-start))
84 (if (= (forward-line 1) 1)
87 (move-to-column (floor hpos
) t
)
88 (unless (eolp) (delete-char 1))
91 (defvar animate-n-steps
10
92 "*Number of steps `animate-string' will place a char before its last position.")
94 (defvar animation-buffer-name nil
95 "*String naming the default buffer for animations.
96 When nil animations dipslayed in the buffer named *Animation*.")
99 (defun animate-string (string vpos
&optional hpos
)
100 "Display STRING animations starting at position VPOS, HPOS.
101 The characters start at randomly chosen places,
102 and all slide in parallel to their final positions,
103 passing through `animate-n-steps' positions before the final ones.
104 If HPOS is nil (or omitted), center the string horizontally
105 in the current window."
107 (animate-initialize string vpos
109 ;; HPOS unspecified, so compute
110 ;; it so as to center the string.
111 (max 0 (/ (- (window-width) (length string
)) 2)))))
112 (show-trailing-whitespace nil
)
113 ;; Make sure indentation does not use tabs.
114 ;; They would confuse things.
115 (indent-tabs-mode nil
))
116 (dotimes (i animate-n-steps
)
117 ;; Bind buffer-undo-list so it will be unchanged when we are done.
118 ;; (We're going to undo all our changes anyway.)
119 (let (buffer-undo-list
121 ;; Display the characters at the Ith position.
122 ;; This inserts them in the buffer.
123 (animate-step characters
(/ i
1.0 animate-n-steps
))
124 ;; Make sure buffer is displayed starting at the beginning.
125 (set-window-start nil
1)
126 ;; Display it, and wait just a little while.
128 ;; Now undo the changes we made in the buffer.
129 (setq list-to-undo buffer-undo-list
)
131 (let ((undo-in-progress t
))
132 (setq list-to-undo
(primitive-undo 1 list-to-undo
))))))
133 ;; Insert the characters in their final positions.
134 (animate-step characters
1)
135 ;; Put the cursor at the end of the text on the line.
137 ;; Redisplay so they appear on the screen there.
139 ;; This is so that the undo command, used afterwards,
140 ;; will undo the "animate" calls one by one.
144 (defun animate-sequence (list-of-strings space
)
145 "Display animation strings from LIST-OF-STRING with buffer *Animation*.
146 Strings will be separated from each other by SPACE lines.
147 When the variable `animation-buffer-name' is non-nil display
148 animation in the buffer named by variable's value, creating the
149 buffer if one does not exist."
150 (let ((vpos (/ (- (window-height)
151 1 ;; For the mode-line
152 (* (1- (length list-of-strings
)) space
)
153 (length list-of-strings
))
155 (switch-to-buffer (get-buffer-create
156 (or animation-buffer-name
160 (while list-of-strings
161 (animate-string (car list-of-strings
) vpos
)
162 (setq vpos
(+ vpos space
1))
163 (setq list-of-strings
(cdr list-of-strings
)))))
166 (defun animate-birthday-present (&optional name
)
167 "Return a birthday present in the buffer *Birthday-Present*.
168 When optional arg NAME is non-nil or called-interactively, prompt for
169 NAME of birthday present receiver and return a birthday present in
170 the buffer *Birthday-Present-for-Name*."
171 (interactive (list (read-string "Birthday present for: "
173 ;; Make a suitable buffer to display the birthday present in.
174 (switch-to-buffer (get-buffer-create
176 (concat "*A-Present-for-" (capitalize name
) "*")
177 "*Birthday-Present*")))
179 ;; Display the empty buffer.
183 (animate-string "Happy Birthday," 6)
184 (animate-string "Happy Birthday" 6))
185 (when name
(animate-string (format "%s" (capitalize name
)) 7))
188 (animate-string "You are my sunshine," 10 30)
190 (animate-string "My only sunshine." 11 30)
192 (animate-string "I'm awful sad that" 12 30)
194 (animate-string "You've moved away." 13 30)
196 (animate-string "Let's talk together" 15 30)
198 (animate-string "And love more deeply." 16 30)
200 (animate-string "Please bring back" 17 30)
201 (animate-string "my sunshine" 18 34)
202 (animate-string "to stay!" 19 34))
208 ;;; animate.el ends here