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<document id="effects">
<properties>
<title>Effects</title>
</properties>
<body>
<p>
The term "effects" refers to Pivot's support for customizing the appearance or behavior
of a component, often over a timed interval producing an "animation". Pivot's primary
support for effects is provided by two types of classes: decorators and transitions.
</p>
<p>
Decorators allow an application alter the appearance of a component beyond what is
supported by the component's styles or any custom renderers the component might
support. For example, a decorator could be used to blur the main window of an
application when a modal dialog is open, or render the image shown by an image view in
grayscale rather than full color.
</p>
<p>
The following example demonstrates a number of stock Pivot decorators by attaching the
selected decorator to an <tt>ImageView</tt> component:
</p>
<application class="org.apache.pivot.wtk.ScriptApplication"
width="640" height="490">
<libraries>
<library>core</library>
<library>wtk</library>
<library>wtk-terra</library>
<library>tutorials</library>
</libraries>
<startup-properties>
<src>/org/apache/pivot/tutorials/effects/decorators.bxml</src>
</startup-properties>
</application>
<p>
The BXML source for the example is shown below (there is no associated Java source):
</p>
<source type="xml" location="org/apache/pivot/tutorials/effects/decorators.bxml">
<![CDATA[
<Window title="Decorators" maximized="true"
xmlns:bxml="http://pivot.apache.org/bxml"
xmlns:effects="org.apache.pivot.wtk.effects"
xmlns="org.apache.pivot.wtk">
<TablePane>
<columns>
<TablePane.Column width="1*"/>
<TablePane.Column width="-1"/>
</columns>
<TablePane.Row>
<Border styles="{padding:2}">
<BoxPane preferredWidth="480" preferredHeight="480"
styles="{horizontalAlignment:'center', verticalAlignment:'top', padding:6}">
<ImageView bxml:id="imageView" image="/org/apache/pivot/tutorials/IMG_0725_2.jpg"/>
</BoxPane>
</Border>
<BoxPane orientation="vertical" styles="{padding:6, spacing:6}">
<bxml:define>
<ButtonGroup bxml:id="decoratorButtonGroup">
<buttonGroupListeners>
function selectionChanged(buttonGroup) {
var selection = buttonGroup.getSelection();
if (selection != null) {
var decorator = selection.getUserData().get("decorator");
imageView.getDecorators().removeAll();
if (decorator != null) {
imageView.getDecorators().add(decorator);
}
}
}
</buttonGroupListeners>
</ButtonGroup>
</bxml:define>
<RadioButton buttonData="None" buttonGroup="$decoratorButtonGroup" selected="true"/>
<RadioButton buttonData="Blur" buttonGroup="$decoratorButtonGroup">
<userData>
<decorator>
<effects:BlurDecorator/>
</decorator>
</userData>
</RadioButton>
<RadioButton buttonData="Fade" buttonGroup="$decoratorButtonGroup">
<userData>
<decorator>
<effects:FadeDecorator opacity="0.33"/>
</decorator>
</userData>
</RadioButton>
<RadioButton buttonData="Grayscale" buttonGroup="$decoratorButtonGroup">
<userData>
<decorator>
<effects:GrayscaleDecorator/>
</decorator>
</userData>
</RadioButton>
<RadioButton buttonData="Reflection" buttonGroup="$decoratorButtonGroup">
<userData>
<decorator>
<effects:ReflectionDecorator/>
</decorator>
</userData>
</RadioButton>
<RadioButton buttonData="Saturation" buttonGroup="$decoratorButtonGroup">
<userData>
<decorator>
<effects:SaturationDecorator multiplier="2.5"/>
</decorator>
</userData>
</RadioButton>
<RadioButton buttonData="Shade" buttonGroup="$decoratorButtonGroup">
<userData>
<decorator>
<effects:ShadeDecorator color="#ff0000" opacity="0.33"/>
</decorator>
</userData>
</RadioButton>
<RadioButton buttonData="Watermark" buttonGroup="$decoratorButtonGroup">
<userData>
<decorator>
<effects:WatermarkDecorator text="Watermark" font="Arial BOLD 24"
opacity="0.33"/>
</decorator>
</userData>
</RadioButton>
</BoxPane>
</TablePane.Row>
</TablePane>
</Window>
]]>
</source>
<p>
Notice that decorators are allowed to paint outside of a component's bounds (which a
component generally is not). This allows decorators to be used to create the reflection
effect shown in the example, or to paint a drop shadow (in fact, the drop shadows that
appear beneath Pivot windows are produced by the <tt>DropShadowDecorator</tt> class).
</p>
</body>
</document>