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Trigger a fade animation when the label or textbox contents change? - woodside - 2014-11-11
Is there a way to trigger a fade in animation on a label or textbox control when the contents of the label or a textbox change?
I cannot for the life of me get a fade animation to work when the contents of the label change no matter what I try. Thanks.
[EDIT] I can do it if I set a visibilty condition on the label control based on the contents of a Skin.String and then do this...
PHP Code:
<visible>Skin.String(labelanimate,on)</visible>
<animation effect="fade" start="0" end="100" time="400" condition="Skin.String(labelanimate,on)">Conditional</animation>
and put this in a fake button control that I use to control a dynamic list...
PHP Code:
<ondown>Skin.SetString(labelanimate,off)</ondown>
... Do some stuff...
<ondown> AlarmClock(labelanimate,Skin.SetString(labelanimate,on),00:01,silent)</ondown>
Kind of a weird way of doing it but it works... I just don't like it because I can only set the AlarmClock for seconds and I don't want it to wait that long before it fades back in. Maybe for a half a second at the most.
RE: Trigger a fade animation when the label or textbox contents change? - MassIV - 2014-11-12
Skin.String() returns an info label and doesn't take arguments.
Look at StringCompare(info,string) or SubString(info,string) for comparing values.
If you just need a true/false you can use Skin.HasSetting(setting) and !Skin.HasSetting(setting). Which you can toggle with Skin.ToggleSetting(setting).
http://kodi.wiki/view/List_of_boolean_conditions
RE: Trigger a fade animation when the label or textbox contents change? - woodside - 2014-11-12
(2014-11-12, 00:35)MassIV Wrote: Skin.String() returns an info label and doesn't take arguments.Hi thanks for your reply. Logic seems to me this should work but it doesn't.
Look at StringCompare(info,string) or SubString(info,string) for comparing values.
If you just need a true/false you can use Skin.HasSetting(setting) and !Skin.HasSetting(setting). Which you can toggle with Skin.ToggleSetting(setting).
http://kodi.wiki/view/List_of_boolean_conditions
I have a label control with the visibility set as such...
PHP Code:
<visible>Skin.HasSetting(test)</visible>
<animation effect="fade" start="0" end="100" time="400">Visible</animation>
I have a fake button to control a dynamic list that I have multiple StringCompare()'s to check and change the contents of the list.
So If I use the following in my button it seems to me it should trigger the visible animation but it doesn't.
PHP Code:
<ondown>Skin.Reset(test)</ondown>
<ondown condition="StringCompare(this,that)">do something</ondown>
<ondown condition="StringCompare(this,that)">do something</ondown>
<ondown condition="StringCompare(this,that)">do something</ondown>
<ondown>Skin.SetBool(test)</ondown>
Is it that it is setting and resetting the SkinString(test) setting so fast that Kodi just doesn't have time to register the change?
RE: Trigger a fade animation when the label or textbox contents change? - MassIV - 2014-11-12
I believe a button like that only takes onfocus. And you can use alarm for a delay, but 1 sec is as fast as it goes.
<onfocus>Skin.Reset(test)</onfocus>
<onfocus>AlarmClock(ShowText,Skin.SetBool(test),00:01,silent)</onfocus>
RE: Trigger a fade animation when the label or textbox contents change? - woodside - 2014-11-12
(2014-11-12, 14:34)MassIV Wrote: I believe a button like that only takes onfocus. And you can use alarm for a delay, but 1 sec is as fast as it goes.
<onfocus>Skin.Reset(test)</onfocus>
<onfocus>AlarmClock(ShowText,Skin.SetBool(test),00:01,silent)</onfocus>
Yeah, that is what I was using (AlarmClock) but slightly in a different way with an <ondown>. 1 second is not that long of a time period to wait for a label to show I suppose. I wish you cold set the alarm with fractions of a second 00:005 or something like that, then that would be perfect. I'll either live with the 1 second delay or figure something else out. Thanks for your time and response. I really appreciate the help you and others give a wannabe like me.
RE: Trigger a fade animation when the label or textbox contents change? - toolpunk - 2014-11-12
Try <onfocus>AlarmClock(ShowText,Skin.SetBool(test),00:00,silent)</onfocus> and add a 500ms delay to the animation. Not sure if AlarmClock allows this though...
RE: Trigger a fade animation when the label or textbox contents change? - woodside - 2014-11-12
(2014-11-12, 16:02)toolpunk Wrote: Try <onfocus>AlarmClock(ShowText,Skin.SetBool(test),00:00,silent)</onfocus> and add a 500ms delay to the animation. Not sure if AlarmClock allows this though...
Dang Bro!!!... you da man!... works perfect. Thanks!
