Animated Dialog Windows






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A class that provides some simple, yet spectacular window animation effects. Try the demo!
Introduction
Often in modern GUI, you can see a some sort of window or menu animation that can give a more user friendly "cool" look. Fading or sliding menus, popping dialog boxes look neat and provide visual feedback with user actions. Currently, however, there is no simple way to do this under MS Windows, other than XORed lines and polygons (besides the AnimateWindow()
function).
The AnimEffect
class provides quite an easy and extensible way to add animation to your code.
Usage
Using the class is rather simple. Just add the following code to the dialogs OnCreate
and OnDestroy
functions.
AnimEffect ef;
// exploding window effect
ef.Open( rcWnd );
// or imploding window effect
ef.Close( rcWnd );
You can customize the effect by calling the Setup(int iSteps, int iAfterimages, int iDelay)
member function, and change the animation type by Effect(EffectType effect)
, where EffectType
is:
enum EffectType {
Random=-1, // default
Spin=0,
Vortex,
ScatterGather,
Spike,
Fireworks
};
Included is a simple demo project that shows a bunch of effects. Feel free to use this code.
License
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