Re: [e4-dev] Animations in e4

[Silenio Quarti <Silenio_Quarti@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Kirill,

We have investigated and prototyped
an Animation API using the support available in some platforms. The API
has been implemented (to varying degrees of completion) on WPF, Cocoa,
Flex and Dojo. Currently there is no animation support on win32 and gtk.
QT could be an option since it provides an animation API. GTK 3.0 may provide
such an API in the future.

When it comes to animation, there are
a few features that the core widgets need: alpha, transformation and bitmap
effects. The platforms we have prototyped all have that support. If that
kind of support is not available in the core widgets, you are restricted
to animating custom draw widgets.

The prototypes are in the folders Eclipse
SWT Animation and Eclipse SWT Effects  under:

        dev.eclipse.org/e4/org.eclipse.e4.swt/bundles/org.eclipse.swt.e4

Silenio and Bogdan

Kirill Grouchnikov <kirillcool@xxxxxxxxx>
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07/22/2009 06:19 PM

Please respond to
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Subject	[e4-dev] Animations in e4

Tom,

Since Trident has its own dev mailing list, and now there is (or going
to be, hopefully) a discussion on the e4 dev mailing list, i would rather
not fragment this thing even further by splitting some of the dialog into
yet another list.

My general question about e4 is - what are the plans for animation capabilities
in e4? Is this being incubated in CWT / Nebula? Is this being floated at
a very generic level with no concrete discussions? Or perhaps this is being
discussed in bugzilla?

Thanks
Kirill

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From: Tom Schindl <tom.schindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: E4 Project developer mailing list <e4-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 3:11:59 PM
Subject: Re: [e4-dev] e4 release review slides

Hi,

It be great if you could outline your ideas at the nebula-dev mailing
list so that the developers their could respond.

Tom

Kirill Grouchnikov schrieb:
> Hi Tom
> 
> How far along are you in the animation layer of CWT? Is there any
> documentation available on existing capabilities / future plans so
that
> i can compare it with Trident to see if anything is missing?
> 
> Thanks
> Kirill
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Tom Schindl <tom.schindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> *To:* E4 Project developer mailing list <e4-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 22, 2009 1:35:52 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [e4-dev] e4 release review slides
> 
> Hi,
> 
> At nebula we have the proposal of a project called CWT [1] and a start
> for animation code too. So I think we should collaborate on this.
> 
> Tom
> 
> [1]http://www.aspencloud.com/cwt
> 
> Toedter, Kai schrieb:
>> Kirill,
>>
>> 
>>
>> I have been following both the SceneGraph and your Trident activities
in
>> the last months. I would love  to see your (swing) demo running
in an
>> SWT environment and discuss in this list how Trident might fit
into e4.
>>
>> 
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> 
>>
>> Kai
>>
>> 
>>
>> *From:* e4-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:e4-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> [mailto:e4-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:e4-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx>]
>> *On Behalf Of *Kirill Grouchnikov
>> *Sent:* Dienstag, 21. Juli 2009 23:03
>> *To:* E4 Project developer mailing list
>> *Subject:* Re: [e4-dev] e4 release review slides
>>
>> 
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I have a question about slide 4 - about deferring the advanced
>> animations in SWT.
>>
>> I've been following this list for a few months, and i haven't
seen any
>> (significant) discussion on this topic. I've recently released
the first
>> official version of Trident animation library which has built
in support
>> for both Swing and SWT - including automatic support for threading
rules
>> and additional UI toolkit-specific features.
>>
>> The overview of support for UI toolkits is at [1], and examples
for SWT
>> can be found at [2]-[4].
>>
>> Is this something that would be of interest to the e4 project?
The core
>> Trident capabilities can be used to built more complex animations
such
>> as layout transitions, window fades, cross fades etc - as shown
in the
>> demo Swing application at [5]. And while the demo is in Swing,
i am
>> going to port it to SWT as well in the next few weeks.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Kirill
>>
>> [1] http://kenai.com/projects/trident/pages/UIToolkitSupport
>> [2] http://kenai.com/projects/trident/pages/SimpleSWTExample
>> [3] http://kenai.com/projects/trident/pages/ParallelSWTTimelines
>> [4] http://kenai.com/projects/trident/pages/KeyFrameExample
>> [5] http://vimeo.com/4622654
>>
>> 
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> *From:* John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>>
>> *To:* e4-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:e4-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 21, 2009 10:59:57 AM
>> *Subject:* [e4-dev] e4 release review slides
>>
>>
>> I have prepared the docu-ware required by the Eclipse development
>> process for the e4 0.9 release. I have attached a draft of the
slides
>> here for e4 committers to review. Please let me know of any errors
or
>> ommissions.
>>
>>
>>
>> John
>>
>> 
>>
>>
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