Qt Kinetic + Plasma Call For Ideas / Project Plan

[Alexis Ménard]

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 <makmanalp at wpi.edu>wrote:

> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at 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?
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