The term 'effects' refers to Pivot's support for customizing the appearance or behavior of a component, often over a timed interval producing an 'animation'. Pivot's primary support for effects is provided by two types of classes: decorators and transitions.
Decorators allow an application alter the appearance of a component beyond what is supported by the component's styles or any custom renderers the component might support. For example, a decorator could be used to blur the main window of an application when a modal dialog is open, or render the image shown by an image view in grayscale rather than full color.
The following example demonstrates a number of stock Pivot decorators by attaching the selected decorator to an ImageView component:
The BXML source for the example is shown below (there is no associated Java source):
Pivot Animator Sticks
The term 'effects' refers to Pivot's support for customizing the appearance or behavior of a component, often over a timed interval producing an 'animation'. Pivot's primary support for effects is provided by two types of classes: decorators and transitions.
Decorators allow an application alter the appearance of a component beyond what is supported by the component's styles or any custom renderers the component might support. For example, a decorator could be used to blur the main window of an application when a modal dialog is open, or render the image shown by an image view in grayscale rather than full color.
The following example demonstrates a number of stock Pivot decorators by attaching the selected decorator to an ImageView component:
The BXML source for the example is shown below (there is no associated Java source):
Pivot Animator Sticks
Notice that decorators are allowed to paint outside of a component's bounds (which a component generally is not). This allows decorators to be used to create the reflection effect shown in the example, or to paint a drop shadow (in fact, the drop shadows that appear beneath Pivot windows are produced by the DropShadowDecorator class).
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