My image in a composite keeps glitching/disappearing?

[zeroTheHero]

My code:

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image telephone:
    "telephone.png"

image ring:
    "ring.png" with Fade(0.5, 1, 0.5)
    3.00
    repeat

image ring2:
    "ding.png" with Fade(1.5, 1, 0.5)
    3.00
    repeat
image ring3:
    "ding.png" with Fade(1, 2, 0.5)
    4.00
    repeat
image telephone composite = Composite(
    (259, 224),
    (0,0), "telephone",
    (10,75), "ring",
    (200, 25), "ring2",
    (200, 75), "ring3")

Image ring is just an image of text "Ring" (I need it this way).
Whenever I run this code some wierd glitch happens with image telephone, it crops, disappears, reappears cropped, fully appears, then disappears, and this repeats (in a different order). What's wrong here? Help appreciated!

[zeroTheHero]

umm help? Still doesn't work...

[trooper6]

I think the problem is that you have an image called
image telephone
and
image telephone composite.

Let's say you declare three images:
image mary normal
image mary happy
image mary sad

All three images have mary image tags. Only one mary can be onscreen at once.
So this is useful so you can define a character and give them the image tag mary, like this:
define m = Character("Mary", who_color="#c8ffc8", image="mary")

So then you can code like this:

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label start:
    show mary normal at left
    m "Hello!"
    m sad "Now, I'm sad."
    m happy "Now I'm happy."
    hide mary

This will show mary normal and then replace mary normal with mary sad and then mary happy...because there can only be one mary on screen at one time.

So...you need to rename one of your telephone images. I'd recommend telephone composite be renamed to something like
image comptelephone or something like that.

[zeroTheHero]

I think the problem is that you have an image called
image telephone
and
image telephone composite.

Let's say you declare three images:
image mary normal
image mary happy
image mary sad

All three images have mary image tags. Only one mary can be onscreen at once.
So this is useful so you can define a character and give them the image tag mary, like this:
define m = Character("Mary", who_color="#c8ffc8", image="mary")

So then you can code like this:

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label start:
    show mary normal at left
    m "Hello!"
    m sad "Now, I'm sad."
    m happy "Now I'm happy."
    hide mary

This will show mary normal and then replace mary normal with mary sad and then mary happy...because there can only be one mary on screen at one time.

So...you need to rename one of your telephone images. I'd recommend telephone composite be renamed to something like
image comptelephone or something like that.

Hmm well I thought of this too and renamed image telephone composite to image main composite, it's still happening. I think it's because of the 'ring' image, the telephone disappears and reappears in tune with the first ring. But no matter how many times I've checked, there's nothing wrong with that image! It's a 56 X 35 pixels transparent image (on the 259 X 224 telephone image). I wish I at least knew the problem so I could google it -_-'

Thanks for the reply though, hope I can get this working

[trooper6]

I don't think main composite is a good name for that image.
Try giving is a one word name...that is also not main...which I think is a reserved term.

All that said, looking at your ATL code...

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image ring:
    "ring.png" with Fade(0.5, 1, 0.5)
    3.00
    repeat

what is the 3.00 doing there? is that supposed to be "pause 3.0"?

The 3.0 by itself doesn't mean anything.

[zeroTheHero]

I don't think main composite is a good name for that image.
Try giving is a one word name...that is also not main...which I think is a reserved term.

All that said, looking at your ATL code...

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image ring:
    "ring.png" with Fade(0.5, 1, 0.5)
    3.00
    repeat

what is the 3.00 doing there? is that supposed to be "pause 3.0"?

The 3.0 by itself doesn't mean anything.

The 3.0 works the same as saying pause 3.0, I don't think it's wrong because it works like I want it to (I can see).

Edit: I found the problem! So I tried to put the composite on an image with white background and it seems the 56 X 35 image 'ring' comes with a square black box around it. It looks to be the same size as image telephone. When all three rings are together my image disappears, and when it's either one or two it hides the image in that weird way.
I should've done this sooner, but here are some screenshots







What should I do?