Re: Re: TimingFramework triggers for Trident - Let's try again

[Kirill Grouchnikov <kirillcool@yahoo.com>]

The latest dev drop of Trident has the new API: Timeline.addPropertyToInterpolate(String, KeyFrames).

The KeyFrames class and related ones (KeyValues, KeyTimes, KeyInterpolators) were taken from TimingFramework (hooray BSD) and slightly adapted to fit with the rest of Trident.

This means that the code that used TimingFramework key frames should be trivially (refactoring import statements) portable to Trident. But then, it never really happens in real world - so let me know if you run into anything problematic. See the new test.swing.ProgressIndication test application that has a very simple example of key frames.

Thanks
Kirill

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From: "remy.rakic@gmail.com" <remy.rakic@gmail.com>
To: dev@trident.kenai.com
Sent: Monday, June 8, 2009 3:34:26 AM
Subject: Re: Re: TimingFramework triggers for Trident - Let's try again


Sure thing. I'm currently doing some customer work, so it might be a
little while though. Trident is looking more and more as a prime
candidate for my anim needs, since scenario for java developers is just
about toast. (Note: i'm not sure i consider the scenario features i use
private APIs even thought the'yre com.sun.* when they've been released
publicly, with much fanfare and excitement both on sun's and my part,
with explanations on how to use them and all that :) So removing those
is hurting, i've done a lot of things with it in the 18+ months since
the release.... I'm working on something to help with that fact, but
i'm digressing.)

Thanks for this feature. AFAICT the only "missing" thing is now
keyframes, which i thought i might take a crack at porting from
timingframework at some point. However the ones in scenario allow non
linear interpolation of space in addition to the TF ones. (i haven't
had the chance/need to use them yet, so i'm not sure it's really needed
anywhere without a visual tool)

Thanks, Rémy