I'm looking for some method to change grid column's width (or row's height) by animtion defined in Storyboard. I have already found some solutions for WPF apps, but they are all useless in case of Windows Store programming, eg.:
Grid Column changing Width when animating
how to change the height of a grid row in wpf using storyboard
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/18379/WPF-Tutorial-Part-2-Writing-a-custom-animation-cla
Is such result obtainable by creating a custom class, inheriting from Timeline? If so, which components should be overrode for proper implementation?
You should be able to use a simple DoubleAnimation. Make sure to set EnableDependentAnimation=True, as outline here.
One thing to realize when trying things out is that ColumnDefinitions are a GridLength struct. You can find more information on them here. You will need to have the animation set the Value property.
Here is a sample method to animate a Grid ColumnDefinition MaxWidth.
private void Animate(ColumnDefinition column)
{
Storyboard storyboard = new Storyboard();
Duration duration = new Duration(TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(500));
CubicEase ease = new CubicEase { EasingMode = EasingMode.EaseOut };
DoubleAnimation animation = new DoubleAnimation();
animation.EasingFunction = ease;
animation.Duration = duration;
storyboard.Children.Add(animation);
animation.From = 1000;
animation.To = 0;
animation.EnableDependentAnimation = true;
Storyboard.SetTarget(animation, column);
Storyboard.SetTargetProperty(animation, "(ColumnDefinition.MaxWidth)");
storyboard.Begin();
}
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I want to disable the default animation on items in a BrowseFragment when they are selected ie scaling animation and the change of position. I want the items to stay where they are and not change their size when selected.
So far I tried various things on my ListRowPresenter object like setting the OnItemViewSelectedListene to null but without successful effect.
How can I achieve this ? (I'm using the version 26 of the leanback library)
You can set the zoom factor for the animation to none by passing in ZOOM_FACTOR_NONE to the constructor of the ListRowPresenter.
There is a constructor for ListRowPresenter to control the animation (focusZoom).
From the documentation:
ListRowPresenter (int focusZoomFactor)
Constructs a ListRowPresenter with the given parameters.
Parameters
focusZoomFactor int: Controls the zoom factor used when an item view is focused. One of ZOOM_FACTOR_NONE, ZOOM_FACTOR_SMALL, ZOOM_FACTOR_XSMALL, ZOOM_FACTOR_MEDIUM, ZOOM_FACTOR_LARGE Dimming on focus defaults to disabled.
Example:
ArrayObjectAdapter adapter =
new ArrayObjectAdapter(new ListRowPresenter(ZOOM_FACTOR_NONE));
setAdapter(adapter);
ArrayObjectAdapter rowAdapter =
new ArrayObjectAdapter(new MyCardViewPresenter(getContext()));
HeaderItem header = new HeaderItem("Header Title");
ListRow row = new ListRow(header, rowAdapter);
for (Video video : videos) {
rowAdapter.add(video);
}
adapter.add(row);
I need to find a way to "upsample" text from 72dpi (screen) to 300dpi (print) for rendered client generated text. This is a true WYSIWYG application and we're expecting a ton of traffic so client side rendering is a requirement. Our application has several fonts, font sizes, colors, alignments the user can modify in a textarea. The question is how to convert 72dpi to 300dpi. We have the editior complete, we just need to make 300dpi versions of the textarea.
MY IDEA
1) Get textarea and increase the height, width, and font size by 300/72. (if ints are needed on font size I may need to increase the font then down-sample to the height/width)
2) use BitmapUtil.getSnapshot on the textarea to get a rendered version of the text
THE QUESTION
How can I render text inside of a textarea without the component lifecycle? Imagine:
var textArea:TextArea = new TextArea();
textArea.text = "This is a test";
var bmd:BitmapData = textArea.render();
Like Flextras said, width/height has nothing to do with DPI, unless you actually zoom into the application by 4.16X. If your application all has vector based graphics, it shouldn't be a problem. Plus, the concept of DPI is lost in any web application until you're trying to save/print a bitmap.
It's definitely possible, but you'll have to figure it on your own.
To ask a question another way, it is possible to create a TextArea in
memory which I can use the BitmapUtil.getSnapshot() function to
generate a BitmapData object
Technically, all components are in memory. What you want to do, I believe, is render a component without adding it to a container.
We do exactly this for the watermark on Flextras components. Conceptually we created a method to render the instance; like this:
public function render(argInheritingStyles : Object):void{
this.createChildren();
this.childrenCreated();
this.initializationComplete();
this.inheritingStyles = argInheritingStyles;
this.commitProperties();
this.measure();
this.height = this.measuredHeight;
this.width = this.measuredWidth;
this.updateDisplayList(this.unscaledWidth,this.unscaledHeight);
}
The method must be explicitly called. Then you can use the 'standard' procedure for turning the component into a bitmap. I think we use a Label; but the same approach should work on any given component.
Here is the final method I used to solve the problem of creating a printable version of the text and style of a Spark TextArea component. I ended up placing the custom component TextAreaRenderer (see below) in the MXML and setting the visibility to false. Then using the reference to this component to process any text field (renderObject) and get back a BitmapData object.
public class TextAreaRenderer extends TextArea implements IAssetRenderer
{
public function render(renderObject:Object, dpi:int = 300):BitmapData{
// CAST THE OBJECT
//.................
var userTextArea:TextArea = TextArea(renderObject);
// SCALE IS THE DIVISION OF THE NEW DPI OVER THE SCREEN DPI 72
//............................................................
var scale:Number = dpi / 72;
// COPY THE USER'S TEXT AREA INTO THE OFFSCREEN TEXT AREA
//.......................................................
this.text = userTextArea.text; // the actual text
this.height = Math.floor(userTextArea.height * scale); // scaled height
this.width = Math.floor(userTextArea.width * scale); // scaled width
// GET THE LAYOUT FORMATS AND COPY TO OFFSCREEN
// - the user's format = userTextAreaLayoutFormat
// - the hidden format = thisLayoutFormat
//...............................................
var editableLayoutProperties:Array = ['fontSize', 'fontFamily', 'fontWeight', 'fontStyle', 'textAlign', 'textDecoration', 'color']
userTextArea.selectAll();
var userTextAreaLayoutFormat:TextLayoutFormat = userTextArea.getFormatOfRange();
this.selectAll();
var thisLayoutFormat:TextLayoutFormat = this.getFormatOfRange();
for each(var prop:String in editableLayoutProperties){
thisLayoutFormat[prop] = userTextAreaLayoutFormat[prop];
}
// SCALE THE FONT SIZE
//....................
thisLayoutFormat.fontSize = thisLayoutFormat.fontSize * scale;
// SET THE FORMAT BACK IN THE TEXT BOX
//...................................
this.setFormatOfRange(thisLayoutFormat);
// REDRAW THE OFFSCREEN
// RETURN THE BITMAP DATA
//.......................
this.validateNow();
return BitmapUtil.getSnapshot(this);
}
}
Then calling the TextAreaRenderer after the text area is changed to get a scaled up bitmap.
// COPY THE DATA INTO THE OFFSCREEN COMPONENT
//............................................
var renderableComponent:IAssetRenderer = view.offScreenTextArea;
return renderableComponent.render(userTextArea, 300);
Thanks to the advice from www.Flextras.com for working through the issue with me.
I have a several chart components that I have created in Flex. Basically I have set up a special UI that allows the user to select which of these charts they want to print. When they press the print button each of the selected charts is created dynamically then added to a container. Then I send this container off to FlexPrintJob.
i.e.
private function prePrint():void
{
var printSelection:Box = new Box();
printSelection.percentHeight = 100;
printSelection.percentWidth = 100;
printSelection.visible = true;
if (this.chkMyChart1.selected)
{
var rptMyChart1:Chart1Panel = new Chart1Panel();
rptMyChart1.percentHeight = 100;
rptMyChart1.percentWidth = 100;
rptMyChart1.visible = true;
printSelection.addChild(rptMyChart1);
}
print(printSelection);
}
private function print(container:Box):void
{
var job:FlexPrintJob;
job = new FlexPrintJob();
if (job.start()) {
job.addObject(container, FlexPrintJobScaleType.MATCH_WIDTH);
job.send();
}
}
This code works fine if the chart is actually displayed somewhere on the page but adding it dynamically as shown above does not. The print dialog will appear but nothing happens when I press OK.
So I really have two questions:
Is it possible to print flex components/charts when they are not visible on the screen?
If so, how do I do it / what am I doing wrong?
UPDATE:
Well, at least one thing wrong is my use of the percentages in the width and height. Using percentages doesn't really make sense when the Box is not contained in another object. Changing the height and width to fixed values actually allows the printing to progress and solves my initial problem.
printSelection.height = 100;
printSelection.width = 100;
But a new problem arises in that instead of seeing my chart, I see a black box instead. I have previously resolved this issue by setting the background colour of the chart to #FFFFFF but this doesn't seem to be working this time.
UPDATE 2:
I have seen some examples on the adobe site that add the container to the application but don't include it in the layout. This looks like the way to go.
i.e.
printSelection.includeInLayout = false;
addChild(printSelection);
Your component has to be on the stage in order to draw its contents, so you should try something like this:
printSelection.visible = false;
application.addChild(printSelection);
printSelection.width = ..;
printSelection.height = ...;
...
then do the printing
i'm not completely sure, but in one of my application I have to print out a complete Tab Navigator and the only method i have found to print it is to automatically scroll the tabnavigator tab in order to show the component on screen when i add them to the printjob.
In this way they are all printed. Before i created the tabnaviagotr scrolling the print (to PDF) result was a file with all the pages of the tab but only the one visible on screen really printed.
I thought I had a handle on AS3, DisplayObjectContainers, etc. but this basic thing is really confusing me: changing the width/height of a sprite does not affect it's visual contents - either graphics drawn within it or any children it may have.
I have searched around and found an Adobe page that represents my own little test code. From that page, I would expect the sprite to increase in visual size as it's width increases. For me, it doesn't. (http://www.adobe.com/livedocs/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/display/DisplayObject.html#width)
width property
width:Number [read-write]
Indicates the width of the display object, in pixels. The width is calculated based on the bounds of the content of the display object. When you set the width property, the scaleX property is adjusted accordingly, as shown in the following code:
My code below doesn't affect the visual display at all - but it does set the width/height, at least according to the trace output. It does not affect the scaleX/scaleY.
What the heck am I missing here??
My setup code:
testSprite = new SpriteVisualElement();
var childSprite:SpriteVisualElement = new SpriteVisualElement();
childSprite.graphics.beginFill(0xFFFF00, 1);
childSprite.graphics.drawRect(0, 0, 200, 100);
childSprite.graphics.endFill();
childSprite.name = "child";
testSprite.addChild(childSprite);
container.addElement(testSprite);
testSprite.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, grow);
}
public function grow(event:MouseEvent):void
{
event.target.width += 5;
event.target.height += 5;
trace("grow", event.target.width);
}
If I understand the code correctly; you are changing the width / height of the sprite. But you are doing nothing to change the width/ height of the sprite's children.
In the context of a Flex Application, you can use percentageWidth and percentageHeight on the child to resize the child when the parent is resized. You could also add a listener to the the resize event and adjust sizing that way; preferably tying in to the Flex Component LifeCycle methods somehow.
I believe these approaches are all Flex specific, and dependent upon the Flex Framework. Generic Sprites, as best I understand, do not automatically size themselves to percentages of their parent container; and changing the parent will not automatically resize the parent's children.
I bet something like this would work:
public function grow(event:MouseEvent):void
{
event.target.width += 5;
event.target.height += 5;
childSprite.width += 5;
childSprite.height += 5;
trace("grow", event.target.width);
}
First, if you have a problem with a flex component, you can look over its source code.
In my environment, (as I installed flex SDK to C:\flex\flex_sdk_4.1), the source code for SpriteVisualElement is located at
C:\flex\flex_sdk_4.1\frameworks\projects\spark\src\spark\core\SpriteVisualElement.as
In the source code, you'll find that width property is overridden :
/**
* #private
*/
override public function set width(value:Number):void
{
// Apply to the current actual size
_width = value;
setActualSize(_width, _height);
// Modify the explicit width
if (_explicitWidth == value)
return;
_explicitWidth = value;
invalidateParentSizeAndDisplayList();
}
So, you cannot expect the auto-scaling of the component.
Making custom components will be one solution.
Here is a sample implementation of custom component.
Custom Component Example - wonderfl build flash online
In my flex app I store the widths and visiblility of columns in an xml file. When the app loads it reads from the xml file and sets he columns values as applicable:
for(i = 0; i < columnsOrder.length; i++){
newOrder[i] = myDG.columns[Number(columnsOrder[i]) - 1];
newOrder[i].visible = (Number(columnsVisiblity[i]) == 1);
newOrder[i].width = Number(columnsWidth[i]);
}
myDG.columns = newOrder;
myDG.invalidateList();
The problem appears to be setting the visibility (it sets the visible field correctly but messes up the width)... I've tried setting it after setting the width (outside of the loop) and before the loop as well. It resizes the columns properly if I don't do anything with the visibility.
Any ideas?
Add an import statement at the top of your class file:
import mx.core.mx_internal;
Then remove using the mx_internal namespace, remove the owner of the column, change the width and then reasign the parent:
public static function resizeColumn(col:DataGridColumn, size:int):void
{
var owner:* = col.mx_internal::owner
col.mx_internal::owner = null;
col.width = size;
col.mx_internal::owner = owner;
}
This ought to do the trick (well, it did for us after a couple of days of swearing)
Is you horizontalScrollPolicy set to false on the datagrid?
"If the DataGrid's horizontalScrollPolicy property is false, all visible columns must fit in the displayable area, and the DataGrid will not always honor the width of the columns if the total width of the columns is too small or too large for the displayable area."
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/mx/controls/dataGridClasses/DataGridColumn.html#width
I was able to get it to work by calling the above loop in a function twice... the first time it add the visible columns, the second time it sets the correct width. Not the best solution but I cannot spend any more time on it.