What about trying to achieve that with the actual grammar that is in dui, the curly brace based language??
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:14 PM, Akmanalp, Mehmet A <makman...@wpi.edu>wrote: > On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Aaron J. Seigo <ase...@kde.org> wrote: > > Animation *a = Animator::fadeIn(item); > > Animation *b = Animator::add(a, Animator::bounce(item, timesToBounce)); > > a = Animator::while(b, Animator::blur(item, amount)); > > Animator::add(a, Animator::fadeOut(item)); > > // auto starts when event loop is hit again, unless a->stop() is called > > > > Animation *a = Animator::fadeIn(item); > > Animator::bounce(item, timeToBounce, a, Animator::Add); > > Animator::blur(item, amount, a, Animator::While); > > Animator::fadeOut(item, a, Animator::Add); > Honestly, I think the add / while syntax is a little unintuitive, > which is a minus since we're trying to make things as simple as > possible. Also, what if want the blur to happen during the fadein > and the bounce? I don't see how you'd do this with add-while without > grouping the fadein and blur. > > > * means two phase learning curve (Animator's shortcut, then Kinetic) if > you > > need to "graduate" from Add/While in Plasa::Animator to Kinetic's groups > Following the previous statement, I'd say we just ditch add / while. > This way, it'd be more consistent with Kinetic *and* it'd be a little > more intuitive (imho). > > Even if we don't create a whole new language as Ivan proposes, we > could imitate it in the name of ease of use: > > Animator a; > a.animate(item, > a.series( > a.fadeIn(), > a.parallel( > a.blur(amount, time), > a.series( > a.bounce(timesToBounce), > a.flip() > ) > ), > a.fadeOut() > ) > ); > > Although the a. in the beginning of all of those is a bit annoying. > Thoughts? > _______________________________________________ > Plasma-devel mailing list > Plasma-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel >
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