seem cool. e4 said a potential animation contribution called Trident some
days ago. is it possible to merge all the effort?

2010/1/8 Ahmed Mahran <[email protected]>

> Hi Nicolas,
>
> Thank you for your nice comment.
> Your idea sounds great. First, let me clarify some points. In Transition
> package, widgets themselves are not animated but their images are instead.
> During the transition, widgets are hidden below a canvas where their images
> are shown being animated so any event from user input will not be dispatched
> to the hidden widgets. So, in Transition package, an extra widget is needed
> to show the transition. Widgets are animated by changing their limited
> visual properties that one can reach directly like (visibility, position,
> size, colors). However, animating images gives more variety. So we can end
> up with two kinds of animation: widget animation and image animation.
>
> So, what I see is that:
> - Animation package could be extended with image/pixel animation to animate
> a single image.
> - A transition package is still needed to carry out the logic of imaging
> widgets and transitioning.
>
> Regards,
> ahmahran
>
> 2010/1/6 Nicolas Richeton <[email protected]>
>
> Hi Ahmahran,
>>
>> I just want to say that your transition effects are great, especially the
>> 3D cubic one.
>>
>> We have an animation package in nebula, currently in Gallery but will move
>> in CWT (common code for Nebula widgets) eventually. This package implements
>> several movements ( linear, elastic, expo, bounce)  and effects (move,
>> resize, fade, set color, shake, crossfade images) which can be applied on
>> widgets. If I understand your work correctly, it is able to transition
>> between 2 widgets or tabs. This is totally cool and does not exist in our
>> animation package.
>>
>> Since we already have some animation/transition code and since your code
>> is not a widget, it may be a good idea to add your code to the animation
>> package instead of creating a new project. This way we could add support for
>> different movements in Transition and  provide new effects based on your
>> transitions.
>>
>> We probably need an official creation for CWT (it is already on CVS) for
>> this and I don't think it has been done already.
>>
>> In all cases (new project or not), you will have to get your code reviewed
>> and to become a Nebula committer.
>>
>> What would you think of this ? (This question goes for all Nebula
>> committers too :-) )
>> --
>> Nicolas
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Le 5 janv. 2010 à 21:21, Tom Schindl a écrit :
>>
>> > Hi ahmahran,
>> >
>> > The start of bringing in a widget to Nebula is to create a bugzilla
>> > using this URL [1] and attach the source code to a bug.
>> >
>> > In nebula every widget is an independent OSGi-Bundle and normally the
>> > only dependencies are SWT and JFace-Libaries and so the correct bundle
>> > is going to be "org.eclipse.nebula.widgets.stw" or
>> > "org.eclipse.nebula.widgets.jstw" but for a review this is not
>> necessary.
>> >
>> > Please CC me on the bug a post the bug-id to this list
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> > Tom
>> >
>> > [1]https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/enter_bug.cgi?product=Nebula
>> >
>> > Am 05.01.10 21:01, schrieb Ahmed Mahran:
>> >> Hello,
>> >>
>> >> I would like to have the honor and to bring my recently published
>> >> project "SWT Transition Widget (STW)" to Nebula. STW is a java project
>> >> to add fancy effects to SWT GUI. Users would enjoy wandering around
>> >> views with smooth transition effect. Currently implemented transitions
>> >> are : (3D cubic rotations, translation, fade). You can watch demos
>> >> at http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=2569B36FF288D795
>> >> <http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=2569B36FF288D795>
>> >>
>> >> The project is currently hosted at SourceForge
>> >> <http://sourceforge.net/projects/jstw/> (
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/jstw/
>> >> <http://sourceforge.net/projects/jstw/>)
>> >>
>> >> Regards,
>> >> ahmahran
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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