Effect when content changes

[bialio]

I am having trouble figuring out how to apply an Effect widget to a UI element when it's contents change.

A simple example would be this :

I've got a table whose Cell calls RefreshArea("target") on FocusGained in order to update the information outside the table that is relative to the focused table item. This works fine.

However, I'd like the old info in "target" to fade out and the new info to fade in. None of the effect triggers seem to allow this. Visible Change / Shown / Hidden don't work because evidently the state of "target" doesn't change - it's 'Shown' the entire time. It just has different content that it is showing......

btl.

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by bialio

I am having trouble figuring out how to apply an Effect widget to a UI element when it's contents change.

A simple example would be this :

I've got a table whose Cell calls RefreshArea("target") on FocusGained in order to update the information outside the table that is relative to the focused table item. This works fine.

However, I'd like the old info in "target" to fade out and the new info to fade in. None of the effect triggers seem to allow this. Visible Change / Shown / Hidden don't work because evidently the state of "target" doesn't change - it's 'Shown' the entire time. It just has different content that it is showing......

btl.

Why not just change the image widget Cross Fade duration that will achieve what you are wanting

[bialio]

If "target" was an image that would do the trick

But it's actually a second table

btl.

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by bialio

If "target" was an image that would do the trick

But it's actually a second table

btl.

Right but those tables still have image or text widgets right?

If not the way I have done it is to set a attribute and fire an animation on the attribute and then another delayed animation on the same condition to fade it back in

so you would have

focused gained()
arrtibute = true

then on your other location

if attribute
conditional animation to fade it out say 500ms
conditional animation to fade back in with 500ms delay

or you could set the fade out to reversible on (true and false) and wait for the first to fire and then reset it and reverse it.

Of course the hard part comes in making sure you focus hasn't already changed again so you are not firing on top of one or another.

[cncb]

I'm sure I just don't understand effects correctly but for some reason the only way I was able to get effects like this to work was to use the Hidden/Shown triggers along with conditionally shown subpanels. That is, have an "if" widget with a boolean attribute that you manually switch before you refresh. The true and false branches have separate but identical panels, one containing the table and effects and the other with references to the same table and effects.

[PLUCKYHD]

Yeah tha would work but is a bit overkill.