In SWING is there a good/easy way of animating a the show and hide of a JPanel? I would like animate the expand of a JPanel height. I figured I could use a timer and increment the height, but was hoping there was something already out there.
Here is an example: (I know this is a web app.... sry). Click Login at the top.
http://web-kreation.com/demos/Sliding_login_panel_jquery/#
Thanks
SwingX comes with a JXCollapsiblePanel which might be helpful. Its demo shows it in action (as taskPanes) at the left - that's the part for choosing the demos.
I would recommend Trident animation framework. I will simplify proper animation based on the properties of your panel
I'd recommend the TimingFramework: http://java.net/projects/timingframework/
It was written by some of the guys from the Swing team before the left a few years ago.
If you really want to look into this in some detail I would recommend picking up Filthy Rich Clients by Chet Hausse and Romain Guy. It's the definitive book about how to do fancy things in a Swing app.
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I am writing a custom application in C using GTK+2.0 and Cairo. Just for learning purposes (and if successful, then for deployment), I wish to recreate something similar to a overlay toolbar/widget (I am sorry if the terminology is not correct) that appears when a mouse moves over a given area on the window, and disappears when the mouse moves away. The toolbar, as I imagine, should appear on top of the existing widgets without displacing them or altering the widget packing in any way. Is it possible to accomplish? If yes, can you please point me to relevant tutorials/examples and/or outline a way to do the same?
Thanks in advance.
Not sure this is easily doable in GTK2. However, I learned recently that there's the GtkLayout widget which allows pixel exact rendering of widgets, so you can even display some widgets over others. Or you may implement your own container widget.
Please note that since GTK3, there's GtkOverlay which seem to do what you want.
You may also give a look to Clutter, which might allow this. Furthermore, there are projects of merging GTK and Clutter for GTK 4.
The little known GtkHandleBox is capable of doing what you want. I must warn you it is deprecated in GTK+3 because is going against the usual UI direction. Also, the correct positioning will be subject to the windows manager quirks, so I'd expect some issue in this regard.
I discovered the new css controlling scrolling and snapping on http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh466066.aspx
I wonder if there's a tutorial or sample out there explaining how this works and to use those css-attributes.
I'm working on a (angularjs based) calendar and I wonder if it's possible to extend it using css to support touch panning trough the months (like win8 calendar navigating with the fingers).
http://jsfiddle.net/johnnayweiler/FyrtQ/
How to use like -ms-scroll-snap to make the view go with the finger, then snap to the next page? What js events would be recommended to know when the scroll amount reached this snap point(to load the next month).
Also of course, is there something similar in other browsers(this doesnt seem to be a standarts feature)? Probably using javascript, are there some simple solutions for handling momentum and snap?
Thanks for your ideas :)
Theres now an official sample ;)
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/ie/Scrolling-panning-and-6834aaf9/sourcecode?fileId=68336&pathId=380363024
Right guys,
I have been looking all over the internet for a tutorial to which will show me how to re-create this effect on images...
http://flash-effects.com/tutorial-image-transition-flying-tile-3d/
I dont want to install these 3rd party components, because the project I am working on at present, may in future need to be edited by other designers/developers.
Is there anyway to do this just via scripting???
Any feedback would be appreciated, im ideally looking for a tutorial...
Most of what you're looking for is here. Then download the Bitmap.zip example and look through it. Although I will reiterate what the page says, you really should buy the book. It's quite good and teaches a lot about Flash in general, not just game programming.
You'd still have to figure out how to randomize the height and width of the pieces, add an onClickListener, and then move the pieces. From the example you provided it looks like they're just moving them back and forth in a z-dimension.
Hope this helps.
I'm currently working on making my Swing application look better. I want to achieve something along these lines:
The idea is for each box to have a pretty header with a background similar to the above image. The closest I can get to anything like this using basic Swing components is adding a TitledBorder but this is nothing close to what I want.
I have experiment with JXTaskPane from SwingX, which is close:
http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/6866/image431.png
And near perfect, except for the fact that it's collapsible and it doesn't appear possible to make it not collapsible.
Are there any obvious solutions I'm missing here? Otherwise I figure extending JPanel and creating a special header for it using a image for the background of the header.
Any pointers greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Since you already looking into SwingX components, why don't you use JXTitledPanel? I think it is very close to what you want to achieve. You can set your own colors there.
Yes, why not write your own custom border or JPanel for that? You customize the painting by overriding the paintComponent-method.
I have a banner at the top of my website that is blue with a light radial gradient on the left side.
I want to have white text animated that scrolls up on the right side of the banner. I want it to fade in as it appears and then fade back out. I would like to do this without the use of Flash, and as little Java as possible. I can work my way through CSS and set up the layout, but I don't know how to code it so that the animation will work.
I'd also like the white text will be the titles and a very brief summary of recent blog posts for the site. (probably the RSS summary) I don't know if that's easy to code into it or if I'll need to hand code that every time I have a new blog post.
After some basic research I think what I'm looking for is HTML 5 canvas, but I'm not sure.
Update: 10/21/2015: The following answer required you to explicitly provide values such as 100em in order to achieve offsets. This is not ideal. Instead, you can translate the element.
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You can indeed do this today without flash or JavaScript. You can use the keyframes feature in modern browsers to move text in modern browsers. I took the liberty to work up a quick demo demonstrating the concept: (horizontal) http://jsfiddle.net/jonathansampson/XxUXD/, and (vertical) http://jsfiddle.net/jonathansampson/h7SYp/.
Essentially we set the initial starting-point of the animation to text-indent: 100% to set it out of view and to the right. Then we set the last frame to text-indent: -100%, or whatever is needed to hide the text (will vary depending on character-length).
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You won't be able to do this without flash or Javascript. HTML is structure, while CSS is presentation. Neither of the two provide animation-capabilities. I would suggest you go a route that includes a small javascript framework like jQuery, as this can convert standard HTML into the animated effect that you desire.
I would encourage you to look into the Cycle Plugin for jQuery.
What you need is JavaScript rather than flash or java.
JQuery is ideal for this type of animation. It's a JavaScript library that simplifies writing such JavaScript functions. There are many plug-ins available for jQuery that give similar functionality to what you require - have a look at JQuery Marquee
You'll certainly need to use JavaScript, unless you want to use Flash. You cannot do it without a program.
Your best bet is to look into an animation library.
Scriptaculous can do everything you describe, but doing what you describe is not for a JavaScript beginner.