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New Post: How to repeat an animation?

icube — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 04:38:31 GMT

i tried doing this but doesn't work...

easeObject.OnComplete((eo, d) =>
                                      {
                                          eo.Finish();
                                          eo.Start();
                                      });

New Post: Ported Artefact Animator to Win8 and Metro

GOEran — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:29:56 GMT

You can find the code here: https://github.com/goeran/ArtefactAnimator.Metro

New Post: ElasticEase & BounceEase properties

jgraup — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 09:19:35 GMT

You’re welcome and thank-you.

You’re right though, that page is a bit confusing and doesn’t really say much even if you know what’s going on already.

I just added this example to the documentation so hopefully it’ll help others in the future.

New Post: ElasticEase & BounceEase properties

Kistjes — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 08:34:30 GMT

Thanks for the quick reply.

I saw the custom ease function chapter, but I didn't know how to use it, so thanks for the example.

B.t.w. great library!

New Post: ElasticEase & BounceEase properties

jgraup — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 08:28:44 GMT

Just create your own like so:

public static System.Windows.Media.Animation.BounceEase myBounce = new System.Windows.Media.Animation.BounceEase() { 
    Bounces = 3, Bounciness = 2 
};

public static PercentHandler myBounceEase = (percent) => { 
    return myBounce.Ease(percent); 
};

ball.SlideTo(x, y, time, myBounceEase, delay);

New Post: ElasticEase & BounceEase properties

Kistjes — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 08:01:00 GMT

Is it possible to set properties for the elasticEase or BounceEase AnimationTransition?

I mean, in the Animation.ElasticEase function you can set the Oscillations and Springiness properties. I can't find a way to do that with the PercentHandler easing functions.

New Post: EaseObjectGroup Complete event

MrPC — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 09:17:47 GMT

When the EaseObjectGroup.Complete event fires, not all the EaseObjects have their .IsRunning set to false.

I can see in the source code that the events are fired before the return Stop() - which clears the IsRunning flag.

When the event fires, I'm looping through my EaseObject array and calling .Start()

Only those with IsRunning set to false restart.

So, tried calling .Stop() method on all EaseObjects before calling start

This didn't work either

Any thoughts?

Many thanks

Did I forget to mention, nice library!

New Post: DesiredFrameRate property?

Pakl — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 10:49:55 GMT

actually, after using it more I am not sure if it would really add much.

New Post: Can't get anything to work - beginner's guide?

jgraup — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 21:01:29 GMT

Before you can use that shortcut you'll need to Normalize the transformGroup - basically make sure the transforms are on the object before you can ease them.

In ArtefactAnimatorExtensions.cs you'll find a function "NormalizeTransformGroup", run that on your object first.

NormalizeTransformGroup(myButton);

New Post: Can't get anything to work - beginner's guide?

cbordeman — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 20:29:40 GMT

I've looked at the sample app, doesn't clue me in at all why my simple animation does nothing and returns NULL:

var ease = myButton.RotateTo(rnd.Next(0, 360), 1.5, AnimationTransitions.ElasticEaseInOut, 0);

ease is always NULL no matter the parameters, but I get no exception. I'm running in Debug mode so WTF?

New Post: DesiredFrameRate property?

Pakl — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 06:02:40 GMT

Is there a way to specify a DesiredFrameRate for artefact animations, similar to the:

System.Windows.Media.Animation.Timeline.DesiredFrameRateProperty.OverrideMetadata(
					typeof(System.Windows.Media.Animation.Timeline),
					new FrameworkPropertyMetadata { DefaultValue = 25 }
				);

DesiredFrameRate property in WPF?

I had a quick look and I assume not but I imagine that it wouldn't be too difficult. How/where would you suggest adding it?

New Post: WPF Plane Projection?

FiscusMedia — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 05:44:35 GMT

Thanks for the tips Bo!

I used the plane projection class for WPF and came up with a stellar implementation that is super easy to use:

ArtefactAnimator.AddEase(_image, Perspective3D.RotationYProperty, angle, time, ease, delay);

It doesn't have control over center of rotation, but you can fake it with XAML.

I will probably use this technique in ALL of my WPF projects.... including Surface 2.0 and some top secret Kinect apps

Jesse is a rockstar for inventing this technology.... we all owe him a huge thanks!

New Post: WPF Plane Projection?

bomanden — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 11:57:33 GMT

Had the same question some while ago , you can search on Plane "projection class wpf"
Found theese two examples ..

http://blog.endquote.com/post/710116433/planeprojection-in-wpf
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/greg_schechter/archive/2007/10/26/enter-the-planerator-dead-simple-3d-in-wpf-with-a-stupid-name.aspx

From WPF disciples google.group
http://groups.google.com/group/wpf-disciples/browse_thread/thread/6672e591b23a7589

Hope you can make use of them . But like you I also like how simple the Plane projection is in SL ;). Would be a nice feature in WPF ....

Cheers
/Bo

New Post: WPF Plane Projection?

FiscusMedia — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 23:05:15 GMT

I have been working with Silverlight and Artefact Animator for quite some time, and manipulating an object's Plane projection is my favorite tool.

Example:

var _center = Helper.GetApothem(500, 4);
var _rotate = new PlaneProjection{CenterOfRotationZ = center, RotationY = 34, RotationX = 82};
ArtefactAnimator.AddEase(_image, Animation3DEffects.Projection, _rotate, 5, AnimationTransitions.CubicEaseOut, 0);

Is there any way to do something like that with WPF?

I don't want to use Viewport3D unless I absolutely have to...

New Post: Plans for Windows Phone 7?

FiscusMedia — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 00:09:24 GMT

Artefact Animator works flawlessly on WP7

I wrote 2 apps with it already and have had no problems

New Post: Plans for Windows Phone 7?

Shalan — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 23:26:12 GMT

As animations play a very important role on the WP7 too - and its based on SL3.x - it might work already...

Any plans regarding WP7?

New Post: 'Artefact.Animation.GetterSetterData' does not contain a definition for 'EaseValue'

spacexplorer — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 02:48:24 GMT

Ok - I found the answer - I will also add the comment on the page where i got the example from:

http://artefactanimator.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=gettersetter&version=2

first I declare a field in my class to hold the value I want to animate:

private Double testValue = 5;

then I declare the const string as in the example

public const string screenValue = "screenValue";

now in my constructor of the class I do the rest:

var screenValueGetterSetter = new GetterSetter
            {
                Getter = (obj, data) => obj,
                Setter = (obj, data, per) =>
                {
                  //this was from the example
                  //GetterSetterData.EaseValue throws an error
                  //var c = GetterSetterData.EaseValue((Double)data.ValueStart, (Double)data.ValueEnd, per);
                  //EaseHelper.EaseValue works!!!!!!
                  var c = EaseHelper.EaseValue((Double)data.ValueStart, (Double)data.ValueEnd, per);
                  Console.WriteLine("testing values obj{0}, data{1}, per{2}, c{3}", obj, data, per, c);
                  //the following line from the example does nothing
                  var o = (Double)obj;
                  //setting the value directly works
                  testValue = c;
                }
            };

//now to test the function
            AnimationTypes.RegisterGetterSetter("screenValue", screenValueGetterSetter);
            ArtefactAnimator.AddEase(testValue, "screenValue", 50, 5).OnUpdate((eo, p) => Console.WriteLine("updating test: {0}",testValue));

thanks for a great Library - I come from Director/Flash - and I am an Interaction Designer - not a Software Engineer

New Post: 'Artefact.Animation.GetterSetterData' does not contain a definition for 'EaseValue'

spacexplorer — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 01:56:21 GMT

I am trying to use the GetterSetter to animate a Double variable

in declaring the GetterSetter in my constructor I get this error:

'Artefact.Animation.GetterSetterData' does not contain a definition for 'EaseValue'

code

var screenValueGetterSetter = new GetterSetter
            {
                Getter = (obj, data) => obj,
                Setter = (obj, data, per) =>
                {
                    var c = GetterSetterData.EaseValue((Double)data.ValueStart, (Double)data.ValueEnd, per);
                    var o = (Double)obj;
                    o = c;
                }
            };

thanks

New Post: How to reset an animation ?

jgraup — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:19:42 GMT

Thanks Bo.

I haven't had much time to work on it since the release, but I'll try to dip back into it. As for your problem, it sounds like you just want some sequencing support.
EaseObjectGroup is really there to report when all its containing EaseObjects have completed - that way I could move on from a group of animations without having to add the Complete handler to the last object in the group.

In the situation above, you have states A -> B -> C -> D -> A.

Are you wanting to retain state A, start the chain, and at any moment stop the chain and return to state A? Or are you wanting to just stop the chain and handle the first state on your own?

Regards,
Jesse

New Post: How to reset an animation ?

bomanden — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:35:13 GMT

Thanks jgraup
Your answer is working for me :)
I just found the EaseObjectGroup class, is it only used to tell when all animations in a loop is done , not something like "my problem" ?
http://artefactanimator.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=easeobjectgroup&referringTitle=Documentation

But thanks again, you have done a great job on this dll :)

/Bo