animated in/out

benjags · Post by **benjags** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 10:42 pm

could it be possible to implement other in/out types, like zoom in-out (expose-like) or some ripple effect, like the one from the dashboard, or some "smoke" appeareance/disappearance... i mean all the special effects stuff that supposedly could be implemented in tiger applications

keep on the good work
Nice app

bye

Post by **The_Tick** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 2:15 am

We have been toying with ideas.

This is one:

http://brok3n.org/GrowlRipple.mov

John Don · Post by **John Don** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 3:58 am

The_Tick wrote:We have been toying with ideas.

This is one:

http://brok3n.org/GrowlRipple.mov

Oooooh. Although, I could see that being severely choppy on machines where performance is an issue.

Post by **The_Tick** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 4:31 am

John Don wrote:
The_Tick wrote:We have been toying with ideas.

This is one:

http://brok3n.org/GrowlRipple.mov
Oooooh. Although, I could see that being severely choppy on machines where performance is an issue.

That's part of the problem. This requires core graphics, which amounts to not that many people right now.

benjags · Post by **benjags** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 1:29 pm

The_Tick wrote:
John Don wrote:
The_Tick wrote:We have been toying with ideas.

This is one:

http://brok3n.org/GrowlRipple.mov
Oooooh. Although, I could see that being severely choppy on machines where performance is an issue.
That's part of the problem. This requires core graphics, which amounts to not that many people right now.

all computers 2 years old (more or less) should handle it well, plus, at least in the dashboard, the level of the effects scales down when the computer is to slow or doesn't have a proper video card

cool video by the way...

Tipo 61 · Post by **Tipo 61** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 1:34 pm

I think this was brought up before, but I think they devs were planning on only using an effect like that for High level notifications, because having that effect every single time would become annoying

John Don · Post by **John Don** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 4:31 pm

Tipo 61 wrote:I think this was brought up before ... because having that effect every single time would become annoying

Most certainly; although, for high level notifications that would appear every once in a while it would be awesome!

Post by **The_Tick** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 4:51 pm

benjags wrote:
The_Tick wrote:
John Don wrote: Oooooh. Although, I could see that being severely choppy on machines where performance is an issue.
That's part of the problem. This requires core graphics, which amounts to not that many people right now.
all computers 2 years old (more or less) should handle it well, plus, at least in the dashboard, the level of the effects scales down when the computer is to slow or doesn't have a proper video card

cool video by the way...

My less than 1 year old ibook won't.

yelly · Post by **yelly** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 11:22 am

I don't see why any of the aforementioned problems are problems because, in an ideal situation, affects would be handled like display styles, making them optional and completely user set, so if your machine is to slow, you could just turn them off. (plus, for extra points, you could make Growl recognise if the machine has core graphics or not, and if not, automatically make affects unavailable.)