Re: Long running animation

2010-05-28 Thread Miguel Madero
Greg, You could probably use a simple DoubleAnimation using an EasingFunction. On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Folks, I want to create a sort of screen saver effect where a shape moves slowly around a control. The path it follows is calculated at start time

RE: Long running animation

2010-05-28 Thread Greg Keogh
Coincidentally, I woke up early this morning and I decided to do some mental health coding. Just for fun I expanded my proof of concept app from last week to animate more elements and have some configuration controls for size, counts and speed. I'm pleased with the great animation effect produced

Long running animation

2010-05-17 Thread Greg Keogh
Folks, I want to create a sort of screen saver effect where a shape moves slowly around a control. The path it follows is calculated at start time by mixing random Sin/Cos functions, then the shape will follow the (x,y) coordinates of the function over time. It's like a moving parametric plot.

Re: Long running animation

2010-05-17 Thread Stephen Price
I've done some really slow moving backgrounds before (was in WPF) with really nice effect. So slow they don't notice the movement but notice things look different if they come back to the screen later. Mine wasn't randomly calculated but nice idea. I used Blend and storyboards so I'm thinking if

RE: Long running animation

2010-05-17 Thread Scott Barnes
second methodology but in SL you simply use seconds/miliseconds etc. From: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [mailto:ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 10:40 AM To: 'ozSilverlight' Subject: Long running animation Folks, I want to create

Re: Long running animation

2010-05-17 Thread .net noobie
. *From:* ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [mailto: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] *On Behalf Of *Greg Keogh *Sent:* Tuesday, May 18, 2010 10:40 AM *To:* 'ozSilverlight' *Subject:* Long running animation Folks, I want to create a sort of screen saver effect where a shape

RE: Long running animation

2010-05-17 Thread Scott Barnes
where as animation by time is essentially atomic clock rationale :) From: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [mailto:ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] On Behalf Of .net noobie Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 12:15 PM To: ozSilverlight Subject: Re: Long running animation the difference

RE: Long running animation

2010-05-17 Thread Scott Barnes
:) heheheh - Scott Barnes Ex-Rich Platforms Product Manager - Microsoft. From: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [mailto:ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] On Behalf Of .net noobie Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 2:20 PM To: ozSilverlight Subject: Re: Long running animation I see

RE: Long running animation

2010-05-17 Thread Scott Barnes
, May 18, 2010 3:07 PM To: ozSilverlight Subject: Re: Long running animation I am helping on the DeepEarth control originally created in SL2, so originally never not intended to work on a WP7 the other day, took out the ref's to the Browser.dll and a coulple minor changes, (e.g. make it SL3 etc

RE: Long running animation (answered)

2010-05-17 Thread Greg Keogh
A quickie demo app to show the answer to my question. http://www.orthogonal.com.au/computers/silvertest I've put a note on the page to say that Frame-Based animation works nicely for my purposes. Greg ___ ozsilverlight mailing list