Animating layouts part IV - demo

This is the fourth part in a series about automatically animated layouts in Swing applications.

• The first part introduced the TransitionLayout. This part showed animated versions of BorderLayout and FlowLayout.
• The second part showed the TransitionLayout applied to a (at least partially) real-world image viewer that allows live thumbnail resizing.
• The thirs part described the current implementation and alternatives that were considered.

On Tuesday the party is over (the wife and the baby get back home from a long overseas trip) and it's less than an hour before the Sunday night football. What does it mean? Not much time left :)

Click on the link below to launch a test application that shows different capabilities of the TransitionLayout (that has since been modified to handle multiple tracking). The application has three TransitionLayouts installed:

• The first is on the tabbed pane itself, allowing cross-fades on tab selection (with no change to application code apart from installing the layout manager).
• The second one is on the top panel of the first tab (buttons 1, 2 and 3).
• The third one is on the bottom panel of the first tab (buttons 4, 5 and 6).

Use Add buttons on the first tab to add the buttons - note the cross-fade effects. Use the checkboxes to select the visibility of the buttons and click Toggle button to initiate the transition fades / animations. The source for this application is right
here.