Secret animations in v6.2

[sundansx]

Tried them out...quite nice.
Narflex...could you add an option in properties or customize menu to enable the user to change the transition speed? I like the animations, but want them to transition faster.
Thanks.

[Opus4]

Originally Posted by sundansx

could you add an option in properties or customize menu to enable the user to change the transition speed?

The STV currently in development has options to enable/disable various animation categories. And, there are properties you can change to set the duration for them.

- Andy

[CyRex]

When I first enabled the animations, they looked great but I noticed that the video playback became a bit jerky, so I ended up turning them back off. But then this past week I upgraded to the latest Java version to fix an unrelated issue, and decided to try the animations again. They are working perfectly now with no adverse effects on video playback.

FYI, I am using the latest version of SageMC on a not-so-beefy client PC. I am at work right now so I don't have the specs readily available, but I think its a Duron 2800. Its been so long since I had to pay any attention to this stuff... it's nice having a system that just *works*.

-Dan

[CadErik]

Originally Posted by flachbar

I am using them too

Are they working on SageMC as well?

[dflachbart]

Originally Posted by CadErik

Are they working on SageMC as well?

Yes they do


Dirk

[coryking]

I love these things! Very, very nice! Not at all annoying and I agree that with them turned off the UI becomes very jarring. It is very quick on my Vista server.

Now if you made the highlight bar pulse everso slowly and subtly you would get my award for 100% pure awesomeness.

[MeInMaui]

Quick question:

Is there any difference between using the Animate API call vs. using AnimateDelayed with a delay of 0ms? They appear to behave the same (as I would expect). I just want to make sure I'm not missing anything subtle. Thanks.

Aloha,
Mike

[Opus4]

Originally Posted by MeInMaui

Is there any difference between using the Animate API call vs. using AnimateDelayed with a delay of 0ms? They appear to behave the same (as I would expect). I just want to make sure I'm not missing anything subtle. Thanks.

As far as I know, they should be the exact same thing.

- Andy

[MeInMaui]

Originally Posted by Opus4

As far as I know, they should be the exact same thing.

- Andy

Thanks Andy.

[sivilya]

Originally Posted by Opus4

The default STV is set up to use a max of 3 layers to limit the amount of memory used for layers: BG, Focus, and Foreground. And, the layers are displayed in that order (alphabetical). You can create additional layers for custom STVs, to change where the focus highlight is drawn for example, but that will use more memory.

Hi,

Does someone know how can we define/create additional layers ?

Thanks,
Tomer.

[Opus4]

Originally Posted by sivilya

Does someone know how can we define/create additional layers ?

See the first post of this topic -- just use a new layer/cache name on the Animation property.

- Andy

[sivilya]

Thanks Andy...

This is what I initially did, however, for some reason when I hit the F5 to refresh the SAGE window the layer disappeared - so eventually I restarted app and it worked (?)

I'm good now - thanks!

Tomer.

[sivilya]

Andy,

As far as you know, should there be a limitation to the amount of total layers or new layers added.

I tried creating 3 new layers, the first couple was fine but the third, for some reason, did not appear. Once I changed the name of the third layer to an existing layer,say, Focus, for example, or remove the layer's name altogether the UI object reappear.

Any idea ?

Thanks,
Tomer.

[Opus4]

Originally Posted by sivilya

As far as you know, should there be a limitation to the amount of total layers or new layers added.

There may be a limitation if it takes too much memory for your system to handle it. Additional layers require more memory.

I tried creating 3 new layers, the first couple was fine but the third, for some reason, did not appear. Once I changed the name of the third layer to an existing layer,say, Focus, for example, or remove the layer's name altogether the UI object reappear.

They are displayed in alphabetical order... maybe it was hidden by one in front of it?

- Andy

[sivilya]

I did check the alphabetical issue - that's not it... as far as the memory goes - there's no much usage of memory that I can see - must be something else

Tomer.

[Opus4]

It is video memory that is used; you are better off trying to keep the number of layers lower. That's why the default STV uses 3 - so it is not likely to have an issue on anyone's system.

- Andy

[sivilya]

OK... I guess I can understand that (doesn't mean I'm willing to live with it! )
The thing is, I have few Widgets I'm trying to animate seperatly - when I place them on the same layer it gets a little screwy (that is when I try to animate only one of them) it seems they loose the origin of the widgets position...
If I tell an object to move (smooth) from point A to point B it looks as if a third position at one of the layers corner is created and the Widget appear to come from there to point B.

Hope I got it clear enough,
Tomer.

[steingra]

Originally Posted by Opus4

Um... I know how to do screen shots, but not how to capture a video of the screen changing...

Besides, if someone really wants to see them, they ought to turn on that property. It is just more fun having first-hand experience moving the mouse around real fast on a screen with lots of buttons or holding down the up or down arrows in a place where focus wraps from top to bottom.

- Andy

Have you ever seen this program? http://camstudio.org/
I have used it to make training videos, that is, me interacting with our software (it records everything I am doing on the computer as I moved around in our application), and of course I hooked up a microphone to record my voice explaning everything I was doing.

And then after a little tweaking/encoding into wav files or whatnot, I burned them onto a cdrom as part of a multimedia training system that I invented for our companies software.

The camstudio is free and seemed to work good for me. You might give that a try.

[sivilya]

Hi Andy,

Do you have an idea when will the API be updated so we can check out more thoroughly the new animation calls added with ver 6.3.1 (or if you are waiting for the final release, can you elaborate more here?) ?

Thanks,
Tomer.

[Opus4]

I think the online API docs would be updated by the time v6.3 is released (things may change or be added before then), but if you want more details on that, send in a request via a bug report.

- Andy