I agree, it does seem off, which is why I'm throwing it out here to get some ideas on how to tackle this from more experienced peeps.

I will try to clarify what I'm after:
The idea is to have a collection of buttons per category, let's say a "page" of buttons. When the category is chosen via the buttons on the left, the requested page with buttons slides into view pushing the current one out of view. It's like an animated toolbox.

I like your suggestion, will investigate.

Cheers,
frank



On 6/04/12 11:31 PM, Sebastian Elsner wrote:
This Approach seems really off, Frank. I am not really getting what you want to do, maybe you can give us the specific purpose of this... What I could imagine is using a QScrollArea, which makes a QGridLayout scrollable.


Am 06.04.2012 09:13, schrieb Frank Rueter | OHUfx:
yes, I think I'm starting to get it, thanks.

So here is a very rough and ugly test using a single animated table (feel free to laugh):
http://pastebin.com/PbZ8ismH

I am trying to see if it's feasible to stuff all my widgets into one big table, then animate the table's position so that only the requested column(s) are within the view according to which button is pushed on the left hand side. Obviously I'd have to hide the headers and lines etc. (no idea how to do that yet either).

What do people think how best to approach this? The above doesn't feel right and I'd have to do a lot of hacking to make this look pretty (though the animation is easy to control as it's just one widget). Or should I rather create one table per button and move them around as a group (I guess I could hide the unwanted tables as well then).

Or does anyone have completely different ideas how to tackle this? I'm sure there is a way more elegant solution. I'm still trying to stick to default QT stuff before I dive into Qt Quick and such.

Thanks for all the help and pointers so far!

frank


On 4/6/12 6:28 PM, Tibold Kandrai wrote:
Hi!

Exactly! Instead of QAnimationGroup you have to use QParallelAnimationGroup <http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qparallelanimationgroup.html>orQSequentialAnimationGroup <http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qsequentialanimationgroup.html>. Or you can create your own group by subclassing QAnimationGroup if you have special needs. :)

Cheers,
Tibold

On 06/04/2012 06:45, Frank Rueter | OHUfx wrote:
I think I found the problem in the fact that it's an abstract class and not meant to be used directly.
the joy of learning new stuff....


On 4/6/12 4:05 PM, Frank Rueter | OHUfx wrote:
Thanks again for this tip Tibold. It seems to be what I'm after, though I just discovered that QAnimationGroup doesn't seem to be supported in PySide. I got this error when I tried to create an instance of it:

NotImplementedError: 'QAnimationGroup' represents a C++ abstract class and cannot be instantiated


I will try and add all widgets to one "page" widget (whatever that may be, I need to find out yet), and then apply the animation to that.
Fingers crossed...

Cheers,
frank


On 4/4/12 7:29 PM, Tibold Kandrai wrote:
Hey!

Try QtAnimation:
http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/animation-overview.html

I use it with in a QGraphicsWidget, but this should work everywhere AFAIR.

Cheers,
Tibold

On 04/04/2012 06:46, Frank Rueter | OHUfx wrote:
Hi everyone,

I'm very new to Qt/PySide and am wondering if it's possible to add an
animation effect to, let's say, QStackedLayout, for when the page
changes. I guess it'd something similar to the way the AppStore works.

In this example I'd like to see the new button "push" the old button out
of view when the combobox changes:
http://pastebin.com/i5sFgQzE

I'm happy to take a good ol' fashioned RTFM, I'm just having a hard time
finding the right bit of information out there.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
frank
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