Do Transitions really need to be final?

[Dr. Michael Paus]

Am 19.12.2011 13:22, schrieb Michael Heinrichs:
> Hi Dan,
>
> the Transition classes are final, because they were not designed to be extended.
>
> There is a request in JIRA to add more events to Animation, which would introduce them also in all Transition classes. Can you please take a look and comment on which events you are missing. http://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-14455
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> The suggested way to add custom transitions is to extend the Transition class (there is an example in the JavaDocs). I have to admit though, that this story is not finished yet, because of the missing events. Hopefully I will be allowed to add them in the 2.1 release.
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
>
>
>
> On 17.12.2011, at 08:25, Daniel Zwolenski wrote:
>
>> Hey Guys,
>>
>> Just wondering if there is a reason for the various transition classes
>> (FadeTransition, PathTransition, etc) being final? I'm guessing it's some
>> sort of performance thing but I can't really see it.
>>
>> The reason I ask is because I just went to create a FadeTransition that
>> also implemented a custom interface (in my case EntryTranstion, which has a
>> setupBeforeAnimation method on it, and a few other things) and discovered I
>> couldn't.
>>
>> I could also see it being useful to be able to extend transitions to form a
>> library of transition classes. I could use a factory, but it would seem
>> more inline with what's there if I could create a CircularPathTransition
>> that extended PathTransition, etc.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Dan


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