Looking to create a sliding effect

[rleiman]

Hi Everyone,

I would like to move a view around based on a timer tick. For example, I will be taking a panel and sliding it down so the user does not see it any more. Next I will slide up another panel for the user to see.

I was thinking a timer would control the speed of sliding.

Can you show me code that I need to use to make this effect possible?

Thanks.

I started to code it like this but don't know how to pass a panel to the timer.

Sub SlidePanelDownAndUp(pCurrentPanelToSlide As Panel, _
                   pNewPanelToSlide As Panel)

   tmrSlidePanelDown.Initialize("tmrSlidePanelDown", 1)
   tmrSlidePanelDown.Enabled = True

End Sub

Sub tmrSlidePanelDown_Tick
   
   PanelMain.Top = PanelMain.Top + 20

    If PanelMain.Top > Activity.Height Then
       tmrSlidePanelDown.Enabled = False

      PanelMain.Visible = False
      PanelNewStory.Visible = True
   End If
End Sub

How do I get an actual panel to slide for panelToSlide.Top?

I could make a timer for each panel but I would like to keep it more generic if possible.

 

[Inman]

Why do you want to use a Timer for this? You can do this easily with Animation library.

http://www.b4x.com/forum/basic4andr...ls/6967-android-views-animation-tutorial.html

 

[rleiman]

Thanks for the reply.

I experiment with that since the animation I now have is not too good.

Why do you want to use a Timer for this? You can do this easily with Animation library.

http://www.b4x.com/forum/basic4andr...ls/6967-android-views-animation-tutorial.html

 

[Erel]

Also check out SlidingPanels code module: Basic4android Search: SlidingPanels

 

[rleiman]

Thanks for the quick reply.

I loaded the sample animation from Inman and will go with that one since it has many animations I want to put into the app.

Also check out SlidingPanels code module: Basic4android Search: SlidingPanels