I'm trying to use animation to display a dialog in my application. I like the way Laszlo Mail displays it's settings dialog where you click a button, the screen dims and the dialog slides down from the top of the screen. I've implemented something similar, but it doesn't look nearly as nice, nor does it display nearly as smoothly. My major problem is getting the dialog to smoothly 'drop down'. What I've done sort of goes like this:
1. I have a dialog view which by default is made invisible with a y location of -600 (the height of the dialog). 2. When the user requests the dialog, I first use an animator to display a mask over the entire application. 3. I then make the dialog visible, bring it to the front and start the animator. The animator for the dialog adjusts the y location going from 0 to the height of the dialog like this: <animator name="_dialogAnimator" attribute="y" to="600" duration="550" start="false"/> The dialog appears, but it sort of appears in two chunks with most of the dialog appearing in the first chunk, followed by the last chunk. What I want is to have the appearance of the dialog dropping/unrolling from the top of the application. Also, once I've displayed the dialog, the next time it is requested, it just pops up, even though I have a second animation which reduces the y value back to "-600". What obvious thing am I missing? Any help/examples would be appreciated. Thanks! -- James Howe Contact: http://public.xdi.org/=James.Howe _______________________________________________ Laszlo-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.openlaszlo.org/mailman/listinfo/laszlo-user
