javafx.animation

Class Transition

java.lang.Object

javafx.animation.Animation

javafx.animation.Transition

Direct Known Subclasses:

FadeTransition, FillTransition, ParallelTransition, PathTransition, PauseTransition, RotateTransition, ScaleTransition, SequentialTransition, StrokeTransition, TranslateTransition

public abstract class Transition
extends Animation

An abstract class that contains the basic functionalities required by all Transition based animations, such as PathTransition and RotateTransition.

This class offers a simple framework to define animation. It provides all the basic functionality defined in Animation. Transition requires the implementation of a method interpolate(double) which is the called in each frame, while the Transition is running.

In addition an extending class needs to set the duration of a single cycle with Animation.setCycleDuration(javafx.util.Duration). This duration is usually set by the user via a duration property (as in FadeTransition.duration) for example. But it can also be calculated by the extending class as is done in ParallelTransition and FadeTransition.

Below is a simple example. It creates a small animation that updates the text property of a Text node. It starts with an empty String and adds gradually letter by letter until the full String was set when the animation finishes.

 final String content = "Lorem ipsum";
 final Text text = new Text(10, 20, "");
 
 final Animation animation = new Transition() {
     {
         setCycleDuration(Duration.millis(2000));
     }
 
     protected void interpolate(double frac) {
         final int length = content.length();
         final int n = Math.round(length * (float) frac);
         text.setText(content.substring(0, n));
     }
 
 };
 
 animation.play();
 

See Also:

Animation

Property Summary

Properties

Type	Property and Description
ObjectProperty<Interpolator>	interpolator Controls the timing for acceleration and deceleration at each Transition cycle.

Properties inherited from class javafx.animation.Animation

autoReverse, currentRate, currentTime, cycleCount, cycleDuration, delay, onFinished, rate, status, totalDuration

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class javafx.animation.Animation

Animation.Status

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class javafx.animation.Animation

INDEFINITE

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
Transition() The constructor of Transition.
Transition(double targetFramerate) The constructor of Transition.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
protected Interpolator	getCachedInterpolator() Returns the Interpolator, that was set when the Transition was started.
Interpolator	getInterpolator() Gets the value of the property interpolator.
protected Node	getParentTargetNode() Returns the target Node for animation of this Transition.
protected abstract void	interpolate(double frac) The method interpolate() has to be provided by implementations of Transition.
ObjectProperty<Interpolator>	interpolatorProperty() Controls the timing for acceleration and deceleration at each Transition cycle.
void	setInterpolator(Interpolator value) Sets the value of the property interpolator.

Methods inherited from class javafx.animation.Animation

autoReverseProperty, currentRateProperty, currentTimeProperty, cycleCountProperty, cycleDurationProperty, delayProperty, getCuePoints, getCurrentRate, getCurrentTime, getCycleCount, getCycleDuration, getDelay, getOnFinished, getRate, getStatus, getTargetFramerate, getTotalDuration, isAutoReverse, jumpTo, jumpTo, onFinishedProperty, pause, play, playFrom, playFrom, playFromStart, rateProperty, setAutoReverse, setCycleCount, setCycleDuration, setDelay, setOnFinished, setRate, setStatus, statusProperty, stop, totalDurationProperty

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Property Detail

interpolator

public final ObjectProperty<Interpolator> interpolatorProperty

Controls the timing for acceleration and deceleration at each Transition cycle.

This may only be changed prior to starting the transition or after the transition has ended. If the value of interpolator is changed for a running Transition, the animation has to be stopped and started again to pick up the new value.

Default interpolator is set to Interpolator.EASE_BOTH.

Default value:

EASE_BOTH

See Also:

getInterpolator(), setInterpolator(Interpolator)

Constructor Detail

Transition

public Transition(double targetFramerate)

The constructor of Transition. This constructor allows to define a Animation.targetFramerate.

Parameters:

targetFramerate - The custom target frame rate for this Transition

Transition

public Transition()

The constructor of Transition.

Method Detail

setInterpolator

public final void setInterpolator(Interpolator value)

Sets the value of the property interpolator.

Property description:

Controls the timing for acceleration and deceleration at each Transition cycle.

This may only be changed prior to starting the transition or after the transition has ended. If the value of interpolator is changed for a running Transition, the animation has to be stopped and started again to pick up the new value.

Default interpolator is set to Interpolator.EASE_BOTH.

Default value:

EASE_BOTH

getInterpolator

public final Interpolator getInterpolator()

Gets the value of the property interpolator.

Property description:

Controls the timing for acceleration and deceleration at each Transition cycle.

This may only be changed prior to starting the transition or after the transition has ended. If the value of interpolator is changed for a running Transition, the animation has to be stopped and started again to pick up the new value.

Default interpolator is set to Interpolator.EASE_BOTH.

Default value:

EASE_BOTH

interpolatorProperty

public final ObjectProperty<Interpolator> interpolatorProperty()

Controls the timing for acceleration and deceleration at each Transition cycle.

This may only be changed prior to starting the transition or after the transition has ended. If the value of interpolator is changed for a running Transition, the animation has to be stopped and started again to pick up the new value.

Default interpolator is set to Interpolator.EASE_BOTH.

Default value:

EASE_BOTH

See Also:

getInterpolator(), setInterpolator(Interpolator)

getCachedInterpolator

protected Interpolator getCachedInterpolator()

Returns the Interpolator, that was set when the Transition was started. Changing the interpolator of a running Transition should have no immediate effect. Instead the running Transition should continue to use the original Interpolator until it is stopped and started again.

Returns:

the Interpolator that was set when this Transition was started

getParentTargetNode

protected Node getParentTargetNode()

Returns the target Node for animation of this Transition. This method returns node if it is set, else returns its parent.getTargetNode() otherwise null.

interpolate

protected abstract void interpolate(double frac)

The method interpolate() has to be provided by implementations of Transition. While a Transition is running, this method is called in every frame. The parameter defines the current position with the animation. At the start, the fraction will be 0.0 and at the end it will be 1.0. How the parameter increases, depends on the interpolator, e.g. if the interpolator is Interpolator.LINEAR, the fraction will increase linear. This method must not be called by the user directly.

Parameters:

frac - The relative position