animation

Using data binding to launch animations in WPF

I am trying to adapt a simple WPF application to use the Model-View-ViewModel pattern. On my page I have a couple of animations: <Page.Resources> <Storyboard x:Name="storyboardRight" x:Key="storyboardRight"> <DoubleAnimation x:Name="da3" Storyboard.TargetName="labelRight" Storyboard.TargetProperty="Opacity" From="0" To="1" D...

jquery nested effects loop

I have a nested function to show/hide paragraphs news-ticker-style. The problem is that when the loop starts over (line 4), the opacity effects stop working correctly so the paragraphs appear abruptly. Any jquery masters know about this? Am I making this too hard? $('#special-ticker p').hide(); var a=0; function outer() { functio...

Calculating rotation along a path.

Hello, I am trying to animate an object, let's say its a car. I want it go from point x,y,z to point x,y,z. It moves to those points, but it appears to be drifting rather than pointing in the direction of motion. So my question is: how can I solve this issue in my updateframe() event? Could you point me in the direction of some good r...

How do you show animated gifs with .NET Compact Framework

Hello, I would like to display an animated gif on a .NET Compact Form. Currently I use a PictureBox control and toggle between .Visible = true and .Visible = false. After .Visible = true the gif is shown however it's not animated. How can I get the .NET Compact Framework to animate it? I already tried this but it doesn't work. ...

Animated "glow" in owner-drawn Progress Bar (ListView/DataGridView)

I've noticed that the bog-standard ProgressBar in .NET 2.0 (Winforms) does show up as the fancy animated glowing bar in Vista; however, using the ProgressBarRenderer (as one generally has to when trying to draw a progress bar in an owner-drawn list view, grid view, or other such control) just gives the visual style without the pretty ani...

jQuery slideUp().remove() doesn't seem to show the slideUp animation before remove occurs

I have this line of JavaScript and the behavior I am seeing is that the selectedLi instantly disappears without "sliding up". This is not the behavior that I expected. What should I be doing so that the selectedLi slides up before it is removed? selectedLi.slideUp("normal").remove(); ...

Custom view transition in OpenGL ES

I'm trying to create a custom transition, to serve as a replacement for a default transition you would get here, for example: [self.navigationController pushViewController:someController animated:YES]; I have prepared an OpenGL-based view that performs an effect on some static texture mapped to a plane (let's say it's a copy of the fl...

Strange Choppy WPF Animation

I am making an app that scrolls information on the desktop. The window is transparent. I am starting out simple, trying to find the lowest CPU use for animating things and I am starting with a simple TextBlock. On my development machine, I get a very smooth animation across the screen setting the Canvas.Left property with a DoubleAnim...

Export from PowerPoint to animated gif?

Is it possible to export a picture with custom animation from PowerPoint to an animated gif? ...

Animated insertBefore in javascript

So I have this app that checks for updates on the server getting a JSON response, each new update is put at the top of my list on a new div that is added via insertBefore using javascript. All works just fine, but i'd like to add an animation effect when the div is added, i.e. "slowly" move the existing divs down, and add the new one at...

animate opacity out, insert html, animate opacity in

With my jquery I'm trying to make the transition from a message to a loading function easy on the eyes by animate the opasity of the message out, inserting the loading.gif and animating the opacity back in. It fails. $('#powerSearchSubmitButton').click(function(ev) { startLoad(); return false; }); function startLoad() { $('....

How do I slideDown whilst maintaining transparency in jQuery?

I'm trying to animate a block level element using jQuery. The page loads with the element styled with display: none. Id like it to slideDown whilst transparent and then fadeIn the content using the callback, however slideDown appears to set the visibility to full before fadeIn is called, resulting in the content being visible during the ...

WPF - Animations in a user control, learning, trying to understand, but feeling n00bish.

OK I'm redoing this since I messed it up. :) here's the xaml. <Window xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" x:Class="ucWaitIndicator.Window1" x:Name="Window" Title="Window1" Width="640" Height="480"> <Window.Resources> <St...

how to stop link being followed until after jquery .animate has complete

back story: i am designing a portfolio website for myself. on its home page, the logo is front and center but on the sub pages the logo is top & right. i thought it would be a nice visual cue (upon clicking a link to a sub page) to use jquery to animate the movement of the logo from the middle to the corner of the page. the issue: th...

How to animate rotating cube in C#?

I would like to do something like this: a rotating cube on a form. I don't want to use any external library or dll, just pure .NET 3.5 (without directx). And a cube build with lines only. Could you please tell me how to do this? I don't want to use external libraries because I don't need > 100 MB library to do this thing right? I want o...

Is it possible to have an animation appear on WPF NavigationWindow?

I have a NavigationWindow which hosts a series of Pages. For design reasons the Pages are fixed at 780x580 but the NavigationWindow can be set to maximize, leaving a lot of black background around my Pages. I would like to show a fairly simple, unobtrusive animation (just some labels of various opacity/size streaming from side to sid...

How to slide content opening up with jquery

My designer handed me a design I'm not 100% sure how to do with jquery and css. I am basicly trying to allow a user to "slide" the footer up to reveal more conent. My html.. <div id="footer"> <div id="expandingFooter"> hidden content</div> content that is always visible </div> I have a toggle button that onclick $('#e...

diagonal movement in a flash animation using as3

i am trying to produce clouds effect in my flash animation using as3 i am able to generate clouds through action script but the real problem is how to make them be generated at one end of the screen and travel diagonally to the other end... any thoughts? ...

Are there any free tools to create SWF / Flash animations?

Are there any competitor tools like Flash for creating SWF animations? My 8 year old son wants to learn 2D animation but I doubt his anticipated attention span warrants buying Flash. ...

Animate ListBoxItem from one ListBox to another ListBox

I would like to create a visual effect when an item in a listbox is double clicked. So far I have drag and drop functionality where the item is visually attached to the mouse and can be moved to a drop target. From that functionality I am able to animate the item using the same logic of getting the item container, however I am not able t...