[Compcomm] Animation plugin

[Sam Spilsbury]

Wow. Thx for the explanation ;-). I've always wanted to set many different
effect for different things rather than just create/close 1/2 ;-)

On 5/2/07, Mike Dransfield <mike at blueroot.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Erkin Bahceci wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > For the widget thing, you mean you want the secondary windows to have
> > a different animation effect than widgets (and primary windows),
> > right? (Otherwise you could use | to match them too of course).
> >
>
> What I am really looking for is an arbitrary number of effects
> on multiple windows.  ie.
>
> normal window create / close = zoom
> tooltip/dialog/menu create / close = fade
> email client window, which has title 'Compose:' close = airplane flies
> away
> widget create / close = beam up + burn
>
> etc etc (new plugins may add other match handlers for extra types)
>
> this is not possible with only create 1/2 and close 1/2
>
> > And I didn't see a CompOptionGroup discussion. Where is it? I could
> > have a look at that.
> >
>
> It was fairly small and went something like this
>
> David : I was thinking of adding CompOptionGroup
> Me : That sounds useful
> David : Lets wait til 0.5.0 and ini plugin done etc and we have a better
> idea of the requirements.
> Me : Cool
>
> > What I had in mind was an option exception list consisting of strings
> > in the format
> >   "<Window Match>:<Event>:<Option>:<Value>"
> > such as
> >   "type=Normal | Dialog:close:effect:Burn",
> >   "type=Normal | Dialog:any:fire_direction:Up",
> >   "any:minimize:glide1_away_angle:45",
> >   etc...
> >
>
> CompOptionGroup would prevent you having to use the extra
> delimiters and I assume it would make it easier to read internally.
> Otherwise it is the same idea.
>
> Look at the code for the opacity_match in core because this is
> the same thing but with 2 lists rather than 1 list with delimiters.
>
> My mousegestures plugin does the same thing with : separated
> strings (its not nice to work with for anyone).
>
> > These exceptions would be prioritized over the normal options. There
> > could optionally be a nice settings-manager gui frontend for this
> > exception string list, if the necessary selection choices, etc. are
> > specified somewhere generically and automatically (at least for
> > <Option>). <Event> selection list would be pretty much fixed (Any,
> > Create, Close, Minimize, Unminimize, Shade, Unshade for now).
> >
>
> Using the existing CompOption types would (I think) mean
> that you would not have to do this sort of thing.
>
> The GUI could handle it as a columned list, with each GUI handling
> it their own way.
>
> > Cheers,
> > Erkin
> >
> > On 5/2/07, Mike Dransfield <mike at blueroot.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >> Did you ever see the initial discussion of a CompOptionGroup type?
> >>
> >> It will be some way of grouping lists, I think the animation plugin
> >> can use it to create any number of animation schemas.  The group
> >> could be like this:
> >>
> >> match, effect, duration
> >>
> >> There would be 1 group for each type of animation (minimize, close,
> >> shade etc) and each item is a list.
> >>
> >> I have just been testing the new animation matches along with the
> >> pywidget plugin, I set the create and close to this.
> >>
> >> close1_match=(type=Normal | Dialog | ModalDialog | Utility) &
> >> override_redirect=0 & widget=0
> >> close2_match=widget=1
> >> create1_match=(type=Normal | Dialog | ModalDialog | Utility) &
> >> override_redirect=0 & widget=0
> >> create2_match=widget=1
> >> close2_effect=Burn
> >> create2_effect=Magic Lamp 3 (Vacuum)
> >>
> >> It means that screenlets look really cool but I have lost animations
> >> on my secondary windows.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> Which separate effects do you use btw?
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>> Erkin
> >>>
> >>> On 5/2/07, Sam Spilsbury <smspillaz at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> what, NO! I use a different effect for minize/unminimize!
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On 5/2/07, Erkin Bahceci <erkinbah at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Minimize/unminimize, and shade/unshade pairs are merged now.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> - Erkin
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On 4/23/07, Bellegarde Cedric <gnumdk at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> I do some works on animation plugin and have some question about
> it...
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Do we really need a different effect on minimize/unminimize,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>> shade/unshade?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>> I can add create1/close1, create2/close2 event if i think having a
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>> different
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>> effect can be justified here...
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Cedric
> >>>>>>
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