Animated interfaces add some much appreciated glitz to applications. But animation can be a bit difficult, especially when trying to animate based on times rather than frames.
AnimationKit is a REALbasic framework which allows developers to animate interface elements ??? RectControls and Windows (including ContainerControls) using a single line of code.
AnimationKit includes convenience methods to retrieve the bounds of an item as a AKRect structure, and create AKTasks which can be triggered for animation later.
AnimationKit also allows customizable frame rates, with a default of 32 frames per second.
Simple or complex animation is now easy, thanks to AnimationKit
Requirements:
· REALbasic
What`s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· All classes have been renamed to a AKxxx naming convention
· Separated AKTask into a "container" class. AKMoveTask replaces AnimationTask.
· Added AKFrameTask, AKFrameTarget, and AKAnimatingCanvas to handle frame-based animations.
· Added AKCompletionDelegate to trigger code when an animation completes.
· Reworked methods to remove need to AKCore.Start and AKCore.Stop methods ??? this is handled entirely automatically now.
