Question about v6.3.7RC Release Notes

[MeInMaui]

Studio Updates

3. Added interruptable animation support (through an optional parameter to AnimateVariable, AnimateTransition and AnimateDelayed)

Is there any more information available regarding the above item from the release notes? Is there an example of the new syntax and how this would be used anywhere?

Also, I've used AnimateDelayed and AnimateTransition already, but what does AnimateVariable do and what is it's syntax?

Thanks.

Aloha,
Mike

[Opus4]

Just add another 'true' parameter to the end of the call to allow the animation to be interrupted -- I use it for UI animations that should stop if the user presses another button (causing focus to change, etc), but there may not be any examples in the beta STV yet.

If no other info has been posted later, I'll add more info, but we just lost power, so I guess I'll need to shut down my computers for a bit...

- Andy

[Opus4]

OK, power's back on, so...

I use interruptible animations when updating some portion of the UI and I don't want to force the user to wait for the animation to finish before anything else can be done. If the user presses another button, the animation will jump to its final state & the UI will respond to the new command right away.

By default, the animations are not interruptible, but adding the additional 'true' parameter as I mentioned above makes the API calls listed in the release notes interruptible.

The new AnimateVariable() call uses these parameters:

AnimateVariable(WidgetName, LayerName, VarName, VarValue, AnimationName, Duration, StartDelay)

The new params:
VarName is the name of the variable to be matched for the WidgetName to be animated.
VarValue is the value that VarName has to match for WidgetName to be animated.

You could use this to animate one or more widgets that have the same name. I animated the focused item in a table by using "Focused" as the variable name & 'true' as the value to match.

- Andy

[Narflex]

The online API docs have now been updated with this info as well.

[MeInMaui]

Thank you both!

I'm having too much fun with this stuff.

Aloha,
Mike