Handling Animated UI Controls

[mariuszhermansdorfer]

@cwensley, thanks for maintaining this awesome library!

I've been experimenting with creating custom UI elements built on top of Eto.Forms.Drawable. This approach provides a lot of flexibility and works very well, but one thing I'm missing is a global way of handling animated UI elements. I am able to work around this by creating and keeping track of individual timers, but a standard animated Eto.Forms.Control class to derive from would be awesome.

Do you have any plans on adding this functionality to the library?

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[cwensley]

Sorry, there are no plans for this. Do you have any ideas of what APIs or functionality would be helpful for animation other than using timers?

[mariuszhermansdorfer]

A central animation server would be handy. Individual controls could register the need to be animated, and the server would orchestrate the animation in the most efficient way by reusing timers, reducing redraw calls, etc.