Re: [platform-ui-dev] How to animate showing and hiding of views created

[Markus Keller <markus_keller@xxxxxxxxxx>]

And the other reason for turning of the
fading animation was that fading is just not the right effect:

bug 357939 comment
1 Markus
Keller  2011-09-19 12:55:52 CEST 
Animations can indeed enhance the user experience,
but only if they serve a purpose other than just showing off.

The current fading effect just makes Maximize/Restore operations slower,
but it doesn't *add* any information. If the animation would somehow grow/shrink
the editor to its new size, then the user could at least follow the transition
by e.g. watching the caret move to its new position.

>From movies etc., I associate fading with a transition to something different
from the previous scene. This is not applicable here, so I'm afraid fading
is not the right effect for this operation.

See also "Clarify and Communicate with Subtle Animation" here:
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/AppleHIGuidelines/UEGuidelines/UEGuidelines.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40002720-SW6




From:      
 Eric Moffatt <emoffatt@xxxxxxxxxx>
To:      
 "Eclipse Platform
UI component developers list." <platform-ui-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:      
 2014-04-08 15:46
Subject:    
   Re: [platform-ui-dev]
[jdt-dev] How to animate showing and hiding of views created using the
"org.eclipse.ui.views" extension point
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   platform-ui-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx

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I've spent a fair bit of time trying
to do this type of thing....there's an internal class 'AnimationEngine'
already available in the IDE as well as an FaderAnimationFeedback. It's
used in MinMaxAddon like this:

FaderAnimationFeedback fader
= new
FaderAnimationFeedback(hostShell);
AnimationEngine engine
= new
AnimationEngine(win.getContext(),
fader,
300);
engine.schedule();

You can see it in action by going to Window->Preferences->General->Appearance
and turning on the 'Enable Animations' checkbox.

It works by capturing the image of the current Window, creating a NO_TRIM
shell that uses this image as its background and overlays the original
window and then ramps the 'alpha' for the new shell down to zero. Unfortunately
there are enough glitches in trying to capture the 'image' of the original
window on some platforms we decided to turn it off.

My feeling is that this might be able to work if the area being affected
isn't too large...(i.e. might work for a view stack...;-),
Eric

Mickael
Istria ---04/08/2014 03:10:03 AM---On 04/08/2014 08:37 AM, suryakant bhagat
wrote: > Hi,

From:	Mickael Istria <mistria@xxxxxxxxxx>
To:	suryakant bhagat <suryavesitb@xxxxxxxxxxx>, platform-ui-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx,
Date:	04/08/2014 03:10 AM
Subject:	Re: [platform-ui-dev] [jdt-dev] How to animate showing and hiding of views created using the "org.eclipse.ui.views" extension point
Sent by:	platform-ui-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx

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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
-- 
Mickael Istria
Eclipse developer at JBoss,
by Red Hat
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