Re: [platform-ui-dev] [jdt-dev] How to animate showing and hiding of vie

[Doug Schaefer <dschaefer@xxxxxxx>]

I'd rather wait until we have hardware accelerated UI before going crazy with animations. Wrapping things in magic shells is pretty disturbing on Mac OS with the system menu.

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From: platform-ui-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [platform-ui-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] on behalf of Wim Jongman [wim.jongman@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2014 9:50 AM
To: Eclipse Platform UI component developers list.
Subject: Re: [platform-ui-dev] [jdt-dev] How to animate showing and hiding of views created using the "org.eclipse.ui.views" extension point

Be prepared to spend a lot of time implementing it and then have it switched of by the user after 5 minutes. Having said this, in addition to Mickaels comments, we have additional animation stuff in Nebula. It is a bit buggy especially on platforms other that windows but it can give you a good start.

http://www.eclipse.org/nebula/widgets/stw/stw.php

On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Doug Schaefer <dschaefer@xxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm interested in the answer myself. To simplify UX when you're working with multiple language IDEs, it would be great if we could have a single coding perspective. The idea would be that views would be associated with editors and we'd fly them in when the editor became active. A former colleague prototyped this and it looked great. Unfortunately he didn't commit his code anywhere so I'll have to reproduce it somewhere down the road.

Thanks!

Doug

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From: platform-ui-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [platform-ui-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] on behalf of Mickael Istria [mistria@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2014 3:09 AM
To: suryakant bhagat; platform-ui-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [platform-ui-dev] [jdt-dev] How to animate showing and hiding of views created using the "org.eclipse.ui.views" extension point

On 04/08/2014 08:37 AM, suryakant bhagat wrote:

Hi,

Hi,

    I am currently working on an application which has been built using the eclipse platform as the base. The application requires to be enhanced so that the new views developed using "org.eclipse.ui.views" extension point are shown and hidden using some crawling animation.

This kind of questions is about pure-UI, JDT-dev is about Java development tools. So I've forwarded it to platform-ui mailing-list.

I would like to know

1. Is it possible to achieve the same using the eclipse platform? Say, by modifications in the source code of eclipse?

I tend to believe that yes, it is possible; but I can't tell how...

2. By some third party tools or plugins which can be used to achieve the animation effect?

The Nebula project contains a component which allows to animate some SWT widgets. It's called CWT https://wiki.eclipse.org/Nebula_CWT_Animation and http://blog.richeton.com/swt-animation-toolkit/ . However, I'm not aware of a recent activity on this project, so if you use it, you'll probably have to remove some dust and fix some bugs there.
But since Nebula is a welcoming project, it shouldn't be a problem: https://wiki.eclipse.org/Nebula/New_Contributions#Patches_with_a_signed_CLA

HTH

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Mickael Istria
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