I am try to add a flip animation to a user control I built. The user control is simple it has a 87x87 image front and back and some properties. It is suppose to represent a tile in a game I am working on for fun. I am trying to animate a flipping affect of the user picking the tile from the deck. I feel I need to do this through code instead of xaml for two reasons: 1. There is another transform after the tile is flip to rotate the tile (currently working) 2. After the tile is flipped I want to unhook the event.
The issue that I am getting is only the last animation runs after the method has exited. I think I need a Storyboard but all the examples I looked at confused me in two ways:
How do I change the image mid story board, and what do I set the targetProperty to be I have been working off these two blogs.
http://www.codeguru.com/csharp/csharp/cs_misc/userinterface/article.php/c12221 http://blogs.msdn.com/tess/archive/2009/03/16/silverlight-wpf-flipimage-animation.aspx
public void FlipFront()
{
DoubleAnimation flipfront = new DoubleAnimation(0, 90, new Duration(new TimeSpan(0, 0, 1)));
SkewTransform skew = new SkewTransform();
this.RenderTransform = skew;
skew.BeginAnimation(SkewTransform.AngleYProperty, flipfront);
}
public void FlipBack()
{
ImageSourceConverter source = new ImageSourceConverter();
this.ImageFace.Source = new BitmapImage(new Uri("Back.jpg", UriKind.Relative));
DoubleAnimation flipfront = new DoubleAnimation(90, 0, new Duration(new TimeSpan(0, 0, 1)));
SkewTransform skew = new SkewTransform();
this.RenderTransform = skew;
skew.BeginAnimation(SkewTransform.AngleYProperty, flipfront);
}
public void Flip()
{
FlipFront();
FlipBack();
}
I broke flip into two separate methods because I though it would help fix the issue I am experiencing.