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in absolute time, they will never lag behind. If the computer
can't keep up, for whatever reason, frames are dropped to
keep up rather than played in turn.
Time lines can also progress non-linear. This means that you
can provide any custom
Function
that will outline the
progress of the animation. For instance it can slow down or
accelerate. It can even have advance sinus-like equations to
make animations oscillate.
Animation
Animation
is an interface that describes how one object
fades into another, given a value between
0.0
and
1.0
(
float
). Subclasses provides the actual implementation that
does the transformation. For instance
ColorAnimation
can
“animate” between two
Color
s.
The
AbstractAnimation
class that all current
Animation
s
subclass provides for caching the values if the frame count is
provided. This is normally a must for animating
Image
transitions for instance but it can of course be turned off.
The Animator
The
Animator
class is an abstract class that provides basic
boiler plate functionality for controlling an animation. The
OverrideAnimator
is the default implementation and it
provides everything needed to animate some aspect of an
AShape
through overrides (as explained above). It does the
animating in an indirect manner, by overriding properties on
the
AShape
. It uses its own
Thread
to set overrides in the
Interactor
, which means that for instance one activity can
(optionally) be animated when mouse over:ed. Setting the
override triggers a repaint and the next frame will be shown.
This method of animation means that any property of
AShape
that can be overridden can be animated, and since
all properties can be overridden, they can all be animated.
There are seven different types of Animations delivered with
the framework and it is very simple to write your own. You
just have to extend
AbstractAnimation
and write one
method that returns the object that corresponds to the
float
value (
0..0
to
1.0
).
Time Lines
A
TimeLine
denotes how frame numbers should relate to
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