Animation: onStart method

[Sebastian Rheinnecker]

Hi Martin,

thanks for the clarification. The issue is promising, but the fixed 
version is "Van Ness". I don't know which version this code name is 
referencing to, but my guess is that it's beyond Javafx 8.0, so that 
makes me a sad panda.

I tried to fiddle around a bit:
- Subclassing Animation and wrapping an Animation to call a handler 
prior to play(): Didn't work, my Idea told me that I needed to implement 
a package-private method that I couldn't call on the wrapped animation.
- Subclassing Transition and wrapping a Transition: doesn't work because 
I cannot call the protected method interpolate from my wrapper.

However, I found out that the statusProperty of an animation is changing 
prior to executing the animation:

(in Animation.java)
void impl_start(boolean forceSync) {
         impl_sync(forceSync);
         setStatus(Status.RUNNING); // <<<
         clipEnvelope.start();
         setCurrentRate(clipEnvelope.getCurrentRate());
         lastPulse = 0;
     }

called from play() via:

lastPlayedFinished = false;
impl_start(forceSync);
startReceiver(TickCalculation.fromDuration(getDelay()));


So I tried to bind a ChangeListener to the statusProperty of the 
animation and waited for changes to "RUNNING". In my local test this was 
satisfying:

     ft = new Transition(){
       {
         setCycleDuration(Duration.millis(2000));
       }
       @Override
       protected void interpolate(double frac) {
         System.out.println("interpolating");
       }
     };

     ft.statusProperty().addListener(new 
ChangeListener<Animation.Status>() {
       @Override
       public void changed(ObservableValue<? extends Animation.Status> 
observable, Animation.Status oldValue, Animation.Status newValue) {
         if (newValue.equals(Animation.Status.RUNNING)){
           System.out.println("starting");
         }
       }
     });

     ft.setOnFinished(new EventHandler<ActionEvent>() {
       @Override
       public void handle(ActionEvent event) {
         System.out.println("finished");
       }
     });

-->

starting
interpolating
interpolating
(...)
interpolating
interpolating
finished

But I didn't try it in my real application yet and I'm not sure if this 
listener really gets called prior to starting the animation or not. 
Would do you think?

Kind regards,
Sebastian

Am 10.05.2013 09:28, schrieb Martin Sladecek:
> Hi Sebastian,
>
> This is currently not possible. There's a JIRA issue for more 
> Animation/Transition events here: 
> https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-14455, so don't forget to vote 
> for it ;-).
>
> Unfortunately, there's no reasonable workaround. One dirty fix might 
> be wrapping such animation in a ParallelTransition, with a 0-length 
> Timeline before it, putting the code in the it's onFinishedProperty.
>
> Regards,
> -Martin
>
> On 05/10/2013 09:09 AM, Sebastian Rheinnecker wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> is there something like an onStart property in Animation, just like 
>> onFinished? Currently, if I want to do some stuff prior to executing 
>> a Transition, for example, I have to do something like
>>
>> void playTranisition(){
>>   doStuff();
>>   doSomeOtherStuff();
>>   transition.play();
>> }
>>
>> Where as
>>
>> transition.onStartPropery().set(new EventHandler<ActionEvent>() {
>>       @Override
>>       public void handle(ActionEvent event) {
>>         doStuff();
>>         doSomeOtherStuff();
>>       }
>> });
>>
>> would be far more convenient, since I could use this together with 
>> SequentialTransition and ParallelTransition and the like. Currently, 
>> I have to set a Handler on the onFinishedProperty of the preceding 
>> Transition (which blows up the code and leads to complicated adding 
>> and removing the listeners).
>> Or am I missing something here?
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Sebastian
>>
>


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