Chet Haase's Blog

Chet worked on the Java SE team at Sun for years, most recently as an architect in the Java Client Group. You can see what he's up to now on his blog Codedependent, covering Flex and other graphics goodies at http://graphics-geek.blogspot.com.

Reanimation

Romain Guy and I will hit the stage again at JavaOne this year to talk about animation.

Our talk this year will be a bit different from past years. First of all, it will be less about nitty-gritty code and more about concepts as we explore higher-level ideas of animation and what we can learn and apply from traditional cartoon animation to animated GUIs. Secondly, Romain will be be dressed in a gorilla suit.

Our session is on Wednesday at 11:05 and again on Friday at 2:30 (this repeat session may be given in Esperanto).

I haven't had time to see what else is on for the week, but I did notice that there's a "Filthy Rich Clients" session on Thursday morning after the keynote. I've never seen this session from the audience point of view; I might check it out. Otherwise, I'll be floating around sessions that I won't be allowed into because I haven't bothered to pre-register for them. I will also be speaking, demoing, and generally hanging out at the Adobe booth. Stop by, say hi, bring chocolate cookies.

Now, back to working on demos for our talk.

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Create Moving Experiences with Animated Transitions
A GUI that radically changes its layout as it goes from one mode to the other can be jarring to users. A new trend is for changes in content or context to be animated, so the user can see the nature of the changes. In an example inspired by the the Filthy Rich Clients book he co-authored, Chet Haase introduces the Animated Transitions library, which can help you achieve these effects in your Swing application. Oct. 23, 2007

Time Again
The Timing Framework project provides commonly used timing concepts for animations. Its latest version adds newer and more sophisticated features, for interpolating between key frames. Chet Haase takes another look at the framework. Mar. 15, 2006

Smooth Moves
Animation quality is a subjective perception, and that makes it somewhat more of an art than a science. Chet Haase has taken a look at some of the things that make animation look choppy, and offers programmatic approaches to improving the appearance of Java animations. Feb. 23, 2006

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