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 <[email protected]>
Sent by: [email protected]
07/22/2009 06:19 PM
Please respond to
E4 Project developer mailing list <[email protected]>
To
E4 Project developer mailing list <[email protected]>
cc
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
From: Tom Schindl <[email protected]>
To: E4 Project developer mailing list <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
> *To:* E4 Project developer mailing list <[email protected]>
> *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:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>]
>> *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
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>> *From:* John Arthorne <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>>
>> *To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>> *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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