animation

How can I animate manually on the iPhone?

I've got a very simplistic "game" set up on the iPhone. Things move around, rotate, you can interact with them, etc. In the simulator, it runs fine, but on the device it gets around 0.25 FPS, and it's so slow that it doesn't have time to recognize touches, apparently. This was originally just using a UIView with an array of Items each...

Simulate ajax loader in winform app

I have a winform app which render a few charts, based on the user selection. I want to simulate an ajax style loader such that when the user makes a selection, there will be an overlay on the form with an animation in the center. What are some of the options in accomplishing this? I was thinking of loading a panel with the animation (gif...

jQuery animation queues across multiple elements

This question is similar to this one about animation queues, but the answers in that thread are very specific and not easily generalised. In my web application, messages are reported back to the user (info boxes, errors & warnings, etc) by outputting a div with class="alert" eg: <div class="alert">Login successful</div> <div class="ale...

Bind to animated property (WPF)

Hi, Does anybody knows, if there is a way to use a property that is animated as source for a binding? As far as I found out, is that an animation doesn't "really" set the value on the property, and therefore doesn't fire the changed events, which is needed to trigger the binding. tia Martin ...

animate images using my toggle function in jQuery

Hi, Ok thanks to all of you I have made my Toggle() function that alternates an image (changes the images to different colors when pressed). I now want to animate the images, so basically call my toggle() function, but leave a time delay between calls to make it look like a transition/animation. What would be the best way to do this? ...

How can I tell when a window in Vista has finished its "zoom" animation?

When running under Vista's Aero theme, is there a way to tell that a window has finished its creation animation? When doing automation, some of the components are not responsive until this animation has finished. ...

WPF: Translating a Canvas at an angle

With reference to this programming game I am currently building. Important: Scroll down to see [Edit] Some of the methods that a user can call in my game will be methods that will do a Translate Transform to the Robot (just a Canvas basically). From the move method, I know the heading (angle) at which the Robot will be facing at the t...

Is there an open source alternative to Flash for web animation?

I want to make something similar to this, but I'd like to avoid proprietary platforms (flash). I'm relatively new to development and I'm willing to learn anything. I understand that some javascript frameworks like jQuery and MooTools are capable of some animation, but is this beyond their capability? What do you recommend? thanks ...

Make Flash movie autoload

Hello. I would like to embed a flash movie on my page but I would need it to autoload from the begining, not only when I reach it through page. I mean, I have a long page and the flash is about in the middle. It plays an animation with sound and I would like it to start itself, not only when I scroll down to it. Is this possible ? Thank...

WPF: How do I transition from one docked UserControl to another?

I have quite a basic WPF form with a DockPanel, there's a Menu bar, a Status bar, and a UserControl. Like so: <DockPanel> <Menu DockPanel.Dock="Top"> ... </Menu> <StatusBar DockPanel.Dock="Bottom"> ... </StatusBar> <UserControls:MyUserControl /> <DockPanel> My problem is: Based on an event, I want to transition the U...

how to fix shifting after animation in IE

Hi, I just made a text animation (fade in; animate(top, opacity)) and at the end, the text went about 5px left then returned to its original position, quite quickly. This happened in IE only; all other major browsers behaved normally. Any idea about why it happens, and how to fix it? I am interested in fixing IE7 in particular. Thank...

Create lightning in OpenGL ES 1.1

I need to create good looking lightning using OpenGL ES 1.1 (iPhone) and was planning on using shaders. However, when I asked about it in a previous question (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/543948/opengl-es-1-x-shaders) I was informed there that this was probably not an option on the iPhone. So now I am back at square one, wonderin...

Need help with animation on iPhone

I'm working on an animated clock application for the iPhone, and I have to pivot all the 3 nodes in the view, which I have obtained in the following code: [CATransaction begin]; [CATransaction setValue:(id)kCFBooleanTrue forKey:kCATransactionDisableActions]; clockarm.layer.anchorPoint = CGPointMake(0.0, 0.0); [CATransaction commit]; [...

Should a animated header be in flash or javascript?

I work at a small website building company and on one of our clients website we have a flash animation in the banner. The animation is rather chunky being 4 megabytes. The client has recently requested a rebuild of the site which would again include an animated header. We were thinking about this time not building the header in flash (or...

iPhone: Positioning to a point on an image from any scale (transform) level

Hello, I have a simple UIImageView with an image that is larger then the display (600x1400). The image starts with Fit to Aspect, so the bounds of the UIImgageView report 320x750, still larger then the display, but that's OK. I know of a point (300, 150) relative to the original dimensions of image (600x1400) that I want to scale and ...

jQuery Animation Help

I have a dynamic amount of div's being returned from a query, all with the class #li. I want them all to fade in smoothly instead of just appear. So far I'm using this code: function loadTables() { $.get("display.php", { server: Server, username: Username, password: Password, database: Database, content: "tables" }, funct...

Using multiple axes and animations in a flex chart

I have to show a line chart with two series, each with "date-value" since the dates can be very far apart in each serie they have their own horizontal axis. The problem is when i add an animation to the series, the animations start looping and never stop. My question is: Am i doing something wrong? or is this a bug in flex chart? does an...

What's the most efficient way to create particles on the iPhone.

I'm looking to create a snowfall effect on the iPhone and I'm looking for advice as to how to best implement this. I've planned to use a png image as the sprite. ...

Toogle Animated Hide Show button jquery

How does content hide show with animation in jQuery ? can anybody help me plz??? ...

Small animations in Silverlight

Hi, I've made a simple storyboard that takes a particular ListBoxItem and lets it grow by a factor of 1.3. I'd like to add this animation to every ListBoxItem I create dynamically so that it can be activated when it gets a mouse-over, but the storyboard seems to be hardcoded to that first item: <Storyboard x:Name="ListItem_MouseEntered...