I'm trying to use DoubleAnimation to change the Height property of a StackPanel. The code does not throw any exception. But the animation does not work.
<StackPanel x:Name="FlyoutContent">
<StackPanel.Resources>
<Storyboard x:Name="HideStackPanel">
<DoubleAnimation Storyboard.TargetName="ChangePasswordPanel" Storyboard.TargetProperty="Height" From="190" To="0" Duration="0:0:1">
<DoubleAnimation.EasingFunction>
<PowerEase EasingMode="EaseIn"></PowerEase>
</DoubleAnimation.EasingFunction>
</DoubleAnimation>
</Storyboard>
<Storyboard x:Name="ShowStackPanel">
<DoubleAnimation Storyboard.TargetName="ChangePasswordPanel" Storyboard.TargetProperty="Height" From="0" To="190" Duration="0:0:1">
<DoubleAnimation.EasingFunction>
<PowerEase EasingMode="EaseIn"></PowerEase>
</DoubleAnimation.EasingFunction>
</DoubleAnimation>
</Storyboard>
</StackPanel.Resources>
<TextBlock Margin="0, 20, 0, 0" FontWeight="Bold" Text="Change Current Password" TextWrapping="Wrap" Style="{StaticResource BasicTextStyle}" HorizontalAlignment="Left" IsTapEnabled="True" Tapped="ChangePasswordHeader_Tapped"/>
<StackPanel x:Name="ChangePasswordPanel" Margin="0, 5, 0, 0" Height="0">
C# Event Handler
private void ChangePasswordHeader_Tapped(object sender, TappedRoutedEventArgs e)
{
if (ChangePasswordPanel.Height == 0)
{
ShowStackPanel.Begin();
}
else
{
HideStackPanel.Begin();
}
}
It does hit ChangePasswordHeader_Tapped event handler and execute ShowStackPanel.Begin or HideStackPanel.Begin statement as expected. But it does not have any impact on the output. The Height of the StackPanel just stays at 0.
Any idea on what's happening??
I figured it out myself. All I had to do was to Enable Dependent Animation (EnableDependentAnimation) on the DoubleAnimation as this animation affects the layout. And then it worked perfectly.
<Storyboard x:Name="HideChangePasswordPanel">
<DoubleAnimation EnableDependentAnimation="True" Storyboard.TargetName="ChangePasswordPanel" Storyboard.TargetProperty="Height" From="190" To="0" Duration="0:0:0.2">
<DoubleAnimation.EasingFunction>
<PowerEase EasingMode="EaseIn"></PowerEase>
</DoubleAnimation.EasingFunction>
</DoubleAnimation>
</Storyboard>
<Storyboard x:Name="ShowChangePasswordPanel">
<DoubleAnimation EnableDependentAnimation="True" Storyboard.TargetName="ChangePasswordPanel" Storyboard.TargetProperty="Height" From="0" To="190" Duration="0:0:0.2">
<DoubleAnimation.EasingFunction>
<PowerEase EasingMode="EaseIn"></PowerEase>
</DoubleAnimation.EasingFunction>
</DoubleAnimation>
</Storyboard>
Hope it saves someone some time!
The easiest way to animate the size of a UI component generally in XAML (and Silverlight/WPF) is to use a RenderTransform. Depending on the layout, you may need to do a few tricks, but for a quick animation, it generally looks very nice.
<Storyboard x:Name="Storyboard1">
<DoubleAnimation Duration="0:0:2"
To="0"
Storyboard.TargetProperty="(UIElement.RenderTransform).(CompositeTransform.ScaleY)"
Storyboard.TargetName="StatListView" d:IsOptimized="True"/>
<DoubleAnimation Duration="0:0:2"
To="0"
Storyboard.TargetProperty="(UIElement.RenderTransform).(CompositeTransform.TranslateY)"
Storyboard.TargetName="StatListView" d:IsOptimized="True"/>
</Storyboard>
The stack panel takes its height from the combined height of its contents. Setting the height explicitly has no meaning.
You need to change the height/visibility of the stack panel's contents.
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In my ShellViewModel I have the following property:
private string _status = "";
public string Status
{
get
{
return _status;
}
set
{
_status = value;
NotifyOfPropertyChange(() => Status);
}
}
In the ShellView I've named my StatusBar TextBlock "Status" so that it binds to the above using Caliburn.Micro - and it does.
Then I've tried to add a "StoryBoard" element so that after a short amount of time the text fades away - currently the text appears but does not fade away - how do I fix this?
<StatusBar DockPanel.Dock="Bottom">
<TextBlock x:Name="Status">
<TextBlock.Triggers>
<EventTrigger RoutedEvent="Binding.TargetUpdated">
<BeginStoryboard>
<Storyboard>
<DoubleAnimation Storyboard.TargetProperty="Opacity"
Duration="0:0:0"
To="1.0" />
<DoubleAnimation Storyboard.TargetProperty="Opacity"
Duration="0:0:2"
From="1.0"
To="0.0"
BeginTime="0:0:5" />
</Storyboard>
</BeginStoryboard>
</EventTrigger>
</TextBlock.Triggers>
</TextBlock>
</StatusBar>
You would need two changes,
First, you need to update the binding to Raise the TargetUpdated Event when property changes. This can be done using Binding.NotifyOnTargetUpdated
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Status, NotifyOnTargetUpdated=True}">
Then, your BeginTime is higher than the Duration in the second animation (BeginTime="0:0:5" ), which needs to be corrected.
<DoubleAnimation Storyboard.TargetProperty="Opacity"
Duration="0:0:2" From="1.0" To="0.0" BeginTime="0:0:0.5" />
Complete Code
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Status, NotifyOnTargetUpdated=True}">
<TextBlock.Triggers>
<EventTrigger RoutedEvent="Binding.TargetUpdated">
<BeginStoryboard>
<Storyboard>
<DoubleAnimation Storyboard.TargetProperty="Opacity"
Duration="0:0:0" To="1.0" BeginTime="0:0:0.5"/>
<DoubleAnimation Storyboard.TargetProperty="Opacity"
Duration="0:0:2" From="1.0" To="0.0" BeginTime="0:0:0.5" />
</Storyboard>
</BeginStoryboard>
</EventTrigger>
</TextBlock.Triggers>
</TextBlock>
I have a piece of xaml that applies a scale transform and a rotatetransform.
<Image.RenderTransform>
<TransformGroup>
<RotateTransform Angle="0" x:Name="RotateTransform"/>
<TranslateTransform X="0" Y="0"/>
<ScaleTransform ScaleX="2" ScaleY="2"/>
</TransformGroup>
</Image.RenderTransform>
I also have a storyboard that needs to accesss RotateTransform like so:
<Storyboard x:Key="Storyboard"
Storyboard.TargetProperty="(RenderTransform).(RotateTransform.Angle)"
Storyboard.TargetName="RotateTransform">
<DoubleAnimation From="0" To="360" RepeatBehavior="Forever" SpeedRatio="0.25" />
</Storyboard>
However I can not get the image to rotate, but it does scale up. Does anyone have suggestions to fix the problem?
Edit: I did figure out that i can use
<Storyboard x:Key="Storyboard"
Storyboard.TargetProperty="(Image.RenderTransform).Children[0].Angle"
Storyboard.TargetName="ContentImage">
<DoubleAnimation From="0" To="360" RepeatBehavior="Forever" SpeedRatio="0.25" />
</Storyboard>
And call the animation by the array position, but why is it not possible to actually call the transform property's angle property automatically by x:Name?
A RotateTransform does not have RenderTransform property, so you can't animate RenderTransform.Angle.
The animation would have to target the Angle property directly. Moreover, you would usually apply the TargetName and TargetProperty properties to the DoubleAnimation, not to the Storyboard. You would also set the Duration of the animation instead of applying a SpeedRatio for the default duration of one second.
<Storyboard>
<DoubleAnimation
Storyboard.TargetName="RotateTransform"
Storyboard.TargetProperty="Angle"
From="0" To="360" RepeatBehavior="Forever" Duration="0:0:4"/>
</Storyboard>
The RenderTransform and RotateTransform are associated properties and need parenthesis around them. This is the correct syntax.
<Storyboard x:Key="Storyboard"
TargetProperty="(RenderTransform).Children[0].(RotateTransform.Angle)"
TargetName="ContentImage">
<DoubleAnimation From="0" To="360" RepeatBehavior="Forever" SpeedRatio="0.25" />
</Storyboard>
as you pointed out in your edit you could also write this as
<Storyboard x:Key="Storyboard"
TargetProperty="(RenderTransform).Children[0].Angle"
TargetName="ContentImage">
<DoubleAnimation From="0" To="360" RepeatBehavior="Forever" SpeedRatio="0.25" />
</Storyboard>
I'm trying to achive a fade out effect on an image in wpf and c#
<Image.Triggers>
<EventTrigger RoutedEvent="Image.Loaded">
<BeginStoryboard>
<Storyboard>
<DoubleAnimation Storyboard.TargetName="imgSlot1"
Storyboard.TargetProperty="Opacity"
From="1.0" To="0.0" Duration="0:0:1"
AutoReverse="True" RepeatBehavior="Forever"/>
</Storyboard>
</BeginStoryboard>
</EventTrigger>
With this code i see my image flashing,and that's ok but why if i change RepeatBehavior to "1x" or "0:0:1" and AutoReverse to "False" (i have to create a single effet of fade out on my image) nothing works?
I was a bit surprised when you said nothing works when you set AutoReverse="False" and RepeatBehavior="1x", so I tried it, and a single fade out works fine. Here is the xaml:
<Image.Triggers>
<EventTrigger RoutedEvent="Image.Loaded">
<BeginStoryboard>
<Storyboard>
<DoubleAnimation Storyboard.TargetName="imgSlot1"
Storyboard.TargetProperty="Opacity"
From="1.0" To="0.0" Duration="0:0:1"
AutoReverse="False" RepeatBehavior="1x"/>
</Storyboard>
</BeginStoryboard>
</EventTrigger>
</Image.Triggers>
However, I am not sure you want that to occur on the Image.Loaded event. And remember you can easily control that from C# or VB, even without a storyboard, similar to the following:
DoubleAnimation fadeoutAnimation = new DoubleAnimation();
fadeoutAnimation.Duration = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1.0d);
fadeoutAnimation.From = 1.0d;
fadeoutAnimation.To = 0.0d;
imgSlot1.BeginAnimation(Image.OpacityProperty, fadeoutAnimation);
Hope this helps!
How can I animate some object like ListboxItem when I click to start SuckEffect to go and hide to left corner of the screen, like deleting the item in the iphone.
I was trying to do easy animation to make the flying animation. but it doesn't work that way.
A combination of skew, scale, translate & projection gives something similar (without the nice curves though). It moves fast so that helps:
<UserControl
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008" xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006" mc:Ignorable="d"
x:Class="ItSucks.MainPage"
Width="640" Height="480">
<UserControl.Resources>
<Storyboard x:Name="SuckLeft">
<DoubleAnimation Duration="0:0:0.5" To="0.05" Storyboard.TargetProperty="(UIElement.RenderTransform).(CompositeTransform.ScaleX)" Storyboard.TargetName="rectangle" d:IsOptimized="True"/>
<DoubleAnimation Duration="0:0:0.5" To="0.05" Storyboard.TargetProperty="(UIElement.RenderTransform).(CompositeTransform.ScaleY)" Storyboard.TargetName="rectangle" d:IsOptimized="True"/>
<DoubleAnimation Duration="0:0:0.5" To="248" Storyboard.TargetProperty="(UIElement.RenderTransform).(CompositeTransform.TranslateY)" Storyboard.TargetName="rectangle" d:IsOptimized="True"/>
<DoubleAnimation Duration="0:0:0.5" To="-318" Storyboard.TargetProperty="(UIElement.RenderTransform).(CompositeTransform.TranslateX)" Storyboard.TargetName="rectangle" d:IsOptimized="True"/>
<DoubleAnimation Duration="0:0:0.5" To="45" Storyboard.TargetProperty="(UIElement.RenderTransform).(CompositeTransform.Rotation)" Storyboard.TargetName="rectangle" d:IsOptimized="True"/>
<DoubleAnimation Duration="0:0:0.5" To="54" Storyboard.TargetProperty="(UIElement.Projection).(PlaneProjection.RotationX)" Storyboard.TargetName="rectangle" d:IsOptimized="True"/>
<DoubleAnimation Duration="0:0:0.5" To="-35" Storyboard.TargetProperty="(UIElement.RenderTransform).(CompositeTransform.SkewX)" Storyboard.TargetName="rectangle" d:IsOptimized="True"/>
</Storyboard>
</UserControl.Resources>
<Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="White">
<Rectangle x:Name="rectangle" Fill="#FF1717C8" Margin="212,120,216,124" Stroke="Black" StrokeThickness="8" RenderTransformOrigin="0.5,0.5">
<Rectangle.Projection>
<PlaneProjection/>
</Rectangle.Projection>
<Rectangle.RenderTransform>
<CompositeTransform/>
</Rectangle.RenderTransform>
</Rectangle>
</Grid>
</UserControl>
This is just from Expression Blend authoring (best place to do this sort of thing as it is so interactive).
I'm trying to get states to change with the visual state manager through code.
I am using:
Microsoft.Expression.Interactivity.Core.ExtendedVisualStateManager.GoToElementState(this.LayoutRoot, "stateRegistration", true);
But it doesn't seem to want to work, I have create an event handler and also a listener but it there's no state changed when using that code.
Can anyone help me out.
XAML CODE (Code Snippet):
<Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Width="897" Height="699">
<VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups>
<VisualState x:Name="stateRegistration">
<Storyboard>
<DoubleAnimation Duration="0" To="870" Storyboard.TargetProperty="(UIElement.RenderTransform).(CompositeTransform.TranslateX)" Storyboard.TargetName="RegisterContent" d:IsOptimized="True"/>
<DoubleAnimation Duration="0" To="880" Storyboard.TargetProperty="(UIElement.RenderTransform).(CompositeTransform.TranslateX)" Storyboard.TargetName="HomeContent" d:IsOptimized="True"/>
<DoubleAnimation Duration="0" To="0" Storyboard.TargetProperty="(UIElement.RenderTransform).(CompositeTransform.TranslateX)" Storyboard.TargetName="btnRegRegister" d:IsOptimized="True"/>
<DoubleAnimation Duration="0" To="-10" Storyboard.TargetProperty="(UIElement.RenderTransform).(CompositeTransform.TranslateY)" Storyboard.TargetName="btnRegRegister" d:IsOptimized="True"/>
</Storyboard>
</VisualState>
</VisualStateGroup>
</VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups>
</Grid>
Thanks.
There is strange behavior with the VisualStateManager: its states must be situated not in the control, but in the child control.
It means, that the GoToState method should be called with the this parameter instead of the this.LayoutRoot parameter, but definitions of state groups must be situated inside the Grid:
VisualStateManager.GoToState(this, "stateRegistration", true);
I don't know where to get the ExtendedVisualStateManager class so I use the default one.
Also if any animation of the state storyboard fails - all animations are cancelled. So try this code sample with two animations, it must work:
<Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Width="897" Height="699">
<VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups>
<VisualStateGroup>
<VisualState x:Name="stateRegistration">
<Storyboard>
<DoubleAnimation Duration="0" To="0" Storyboard.TargetProperty="(UIElement.RenderTransform).(CompositeTransform.TranslateX)" Storyboard.TargetName="btnRegRegister" d:IsOptimized="True"/>
<DoubleAnimation Duration="0" To="-10" Storyboard.TargetProperty="(UIElement.RenderTransform).(CompositeTransform.TranslateY)" Storyboard.TargetName="btnRegRegister" d:IsOptimized="True"/>
</Storyboard>
</VisualState>
</VisualStateGroup>
</VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups>
<Button x:Name="btnRegRegister" Content="Some button" Click="btnRegRegister_Click" VerticalAlignment="Center" HorizontalAlignment="Center">
<Button.RenderTransform>
<CompositeTransform TranslateX="0" TranslateY="0" />
</Button.RenderTransform>
</Button>
</Grid>