Animation -example

Description

This example is a UI application, which -demonstrates how to create and play basic and sprite animations. It implements -all the standard classes required by any application using UI controls such -as an application, a document, an application UI and a view.

The application +Animation example +

Description

This example is a UI application, which demonstrates how to create +and play basic and sprite animations. It implements all the standard +classes required by any application using UI controls such as an application, +a document, an application UI and a view.

The application provides UI controls to create a sprite animation and a basic client-side -animation. It also provides UI controls to control the behavior -of an animation such as, start, stop, pause, resume and move.

The -application plays an animated .gif file both as a basic -client-side animation and a server-side sprite animation. It performs the -following tasks in the order they are listed to create the basic and sprite -animations:

Creates an object of -the CICLAnimationDataProvider class.
Loads the animated .gif file -into the object.
Configures the animation -to play in an infinite loop using TAnimationConfig.
Creates objects of CBasicAnimation and CSpriteAnimation classes by passing the data provider object as an argument.
Starts animations with -the TAnimationConfig object as an argument.

Once both the animations are started, the window server will automatically -draw the animations onto the window by calling the Draw() method.

Download

Click on the following link to download -the example: AnimExample.zip

Click: browse to view the example code.

Class summary

The application plays an animated .gif file +both as a basic client-side animation and a server-side sprite animation. +It performs the following tasks in the order they are listed to create +the basic and sprite animations:

Creates an object +of the CICLAnimationDataProvider class.
Loads the animated .gif file into the object.
Configures the +animation to play in an infinite loop using TAnimationConfig.
Creates objects +of CBasicAnimation and CSpriteAnimation classes by passing the data provider object as an argument.
Starts animations +with the TAnimationConfig object as an argument.

Once both the animations are started, the window server will +automatically draw the animations onto the window by calling the Draw() method.

Download

Click on the following link to download the example: AnimExample.zip

Click: browse to view the example code.

Class +summary

CEikApplication
CEikDocument
CEikAppUi
CICLAnimationDataProvider
TAnimationConfig

Build

The Symbian -platform build process describes how to build an application. But, -use abld export command before abld build to -copy the animated .gif file to RAM (C:\ drive) -of the target platform.

The AnimExample builds an executable called AnimExample.exe in -the standard location (\epoc32\release\winscw\ udeb -or urel for CodeWarrior). Either launch the executable or launch the emulator -and then select the AnimExample application from the Emulator's extras bar.