Timing specification
Timing information can be specified in the following places:
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Showing a screen for a given duration:
show Introduction for 10000
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Displaying a component during the test run for a given duration:
cross() for 1000
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Defining when the component should be shown. For this we use component timing expression which is specified before the component. For example:
at .+200 rectangle()
This is the general form of the timing expression:
at <target:><.><+ or -><miliseconds>
where:
target:
- is the name of the component this expression is relative to. If not given, timing expression is relative to the previous component..
means relative to the start of the target component. If not given time is relative to the end of the previous component.+
or-
- specified time is relative and is added or subtracted from the target time.<miliseconds>
- a number of miliseconds
If timing expression is not given for the component, by default it is:
at .
which means start at the same time as the previous component.
Examples:
at 200 cross() -- show cross 200ms after the phase begins (this is absolute time) at .-100 cross() -- show cross 100ms before the start of the previous component at +100 cross() -- show cross 100ms after the finish of the previous component at myrec:.+100 cross() -- show cross 100ms after the start of the myrec component at myrec:+100 cross() -- show cross 100ms after the finish of the myrec component at myrec:-100 cross() -- show cross 100ms before the finish of the myrec component