RE: [perl-win32-gui-users] Animated windows

[Frazier, J. J. <Joe...@Pe...>]

Dude, Those ROCK!!!!   Thanks for taking the time to play with and come =
up with these.  Maybe they will get into the next version.   Keep =
sending new ones when you find them.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Luigino Masarati [mailto:lma...@ou...]
Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 8:18 AM
To: per...@li...
Subject: [perl-win32-gui-users] Animated windows



Hi,
    I searched in this mailing list how to create animated windows like =
start menu in W2K/XP (see Win32 SDK - Layered Windows =
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=3D/library/en-us/winui/=
winui/windowsuserinterface/windowing/windows/windowreference/windowfuncti=
ons/animatewindow.asp) and found nothing about it, so i searched on MSDN =
and found the API code and tried until i got it.
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Note that this functionality is fully supported by Windows 98/2000/XP =
only.
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Here is the code, hope it will be useful to someone else...
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# use Win32::GUI etc...=20
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use Win32;
use Win32::API;
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use constant AW_HOR_POSITIVE =3D> 0x00000001;
use constant AW_HOR_NEGATIVE =3D> 0x00000002;
use constant AW_VER_POSITIVE =3D> 0x00000004;
use constant AW_VER_NEGATIVE =3D> 0x00000008;
use constant AW_CENTER       =3D> 0x00000010;
use constant AW_HIDE         =3D> 0x00010000;
use constant AW_ACTIVATE     =3D> 0x00020000;
use constant AW_SLIDE        =3D> 0x00040000;
use constant AW_BLEND        =3D> 0x00080000;
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# BOOL AnimateWindow(
# HWND hwnd,
# DWORD dwTime,
# DWORD dwFlags
# );
my $AnimateWindow =3D new Win32::API("user32", "AnimateWindow", [ 'N', =
'N', 'N' ], 'N') or $reg{'UI'}{'Fading'} =3D 0;
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# ... here create your window object ($winObj) as ususal...
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# set animation duration in ms (usually 200ms)
my $msec =3D 200;
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# FADE IN
# use this command in place of $objWin->Show()
$AnimateWindow->Call($winObj->{-handle}, $msec, AW_ACTIVATE | AW_BLEND =
);
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# FADE OUT
# use this command in place of $objWin->Hide() for example in =
winObj_Terminate()
$AnimateWindow->Call($winObj->{-handle}, $msec, AW_HIDE | AW_BLEND );
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# Some alternatives follows...
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# APPEAR from LEFT-TOP
# use this command in place of $objWin->Show()
# $AnimateWindow->Call($winObj->{-handle}, $msec, AW_ACTIVATE | AW_SLIDE =
| AW_HOR_POSITIVE | AW_VER_POSITIVE );
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# DISAPPEAR from RIGHT-BOTTOM
# use this command in place of $objWin->Hide() for example in =
winObj_Terminate()
# $AnimateWindow->Call($winObj->{-handle}, $msec, AW_HIDE | AW_SLIDE | =
AW_HOR_NEGATIVE | AW_VER_NEGATIVE );
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# GROW from CENTER
# use this command in place of $objWin->Show()
# $AnimateWindow->Call($winObj->{-handle}, $msec, AW_ACTIVATE | =
AW_CENTER );
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# SHRINK to CENTER
# use this command in place of $objWin->Hide() for example in =
winObj_Terminate()
# $AnimateWindow->Call($winObj->{-handle}, $msec, AW_HIDE | AW_CENTER );
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#-----------------------------
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Bye.
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    Luigino Masarati
    OutSys snc.
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