Hello
I think it would be very useful to add:

A program , external or not, to design panels, and animate panels, and transitions, fade out, zoom out, roll left, cross fade, etc etc, a little like flash does.

This would add a greater improvement to the current panels usage and interface possibilities.
Instead of coding every move and dynamics.

So you could put a panel on the left, and then select a key timeline, and move 50 frames, or seconds, and then put the panel on the right position, the engine would smooth move the panel left to right, ( or scale, or anything )


Thanks.

Do you mean something to create a menu, or animations for video sequences or something? For video sequences I would advise you to create that with a tool that is made for that.

For main menus, did you tried the panel editor plugin of SED?

i mean animate panels, like, you put the panel on the left, select time 5 seconds, and the put the panel to the right, and then play, and the panels is automaticly doing the transitions from point A toB, in 5 seconds, its not video sequence.. its like ADOBE FLASH or something?

Hmmm... Doesn't make sense to me. I suppose you could use panel editor for SED, but I've never touched it. It's always been a breeze to code panels.

I'm interested in playing around with the C# wrapper and VC# when I've got free time to do so. We're switching engines right now though. I suppose you could figure out a way to use the Windows form editor like this. Then you'd be able to do everything from A7 panels to real Windows forms/API stuff. Just a guess. That's something I'd like to try someday.

But for what you're talking about, why not find the two positions you want the panel to start and end at. Then set up a function with a simple timer based on the amount of movement. Then... (pseudo-code)

if(panel.x == whatever && panel.y == whatever)
{
break;
}

It simply stops when it gets there. Pretty easy.

OK this IS NOT GDI MAYBE.. it has nothing to do with windows APi formas etc..

I just say a way to handle ANIMATIONS, and Smooth transitionds, like ADOBE flash, animations you know?..

THE SED PANEL IS JUST THE SCRIPT; TO ADD THE PANEL; NOT THE ANIMATION PART.

I know how to script the move thing!! i just asked for something more complex, with no need to script..

but why? if you can code hard things you can easily make the simple things. and why add these simple things if they're really that simple, even for a beginner?

Lool
Example:
Start with a quad 40x40,then move to the right , while it fades in, and scales horizonaly.
Well? but this needs code, but if things could be more visual, then it would be easier and faster, Just that. And dont need to script those possibilties, and when i need more complex flash like menus this are a bit harder. Because there are some variables, speeds etc that needs to be experimented, and see if it works good, and not testing with speed =2 , then closing, testing with 4, then not the right yet and change to 6.. Wast of time..

And ...
Yeah you right..everything is coded, but somethings could be simplified... thats why most programs are visual interface.. thats why you have WINDOW and not work with MS DOS... right..

Simplified is also the aim of the new Gstudio feature GED ( not only for this reason but also..)
Because everything comes more interactiv, and user friendly...

Your are telling me the same thing, as: "Oh i dont know why adobe flash has a visual interface for animations and motion guides! if people could code the movements on the action script by their own."
OR
I dont know why the use of easy particles!! why?? if i could code everything!!
please...

buts its ok i see i'm the only wrong here... no problem dudes. maybe im retarded

I think only a small amount of people will need such a tool => conitec won't do something if nearly nobody is interested in this.

But I think programming such a tool for yourself shouldn't be too hard Only a small tool that does exectly what you need for your project and that relievs your work. You could also improve this tool and sell it to the comunity if you think that this is a tool that everybody needs.

yeah i thinking in that in the future.

i was just criticising your wish for a tool that does the simplest things. it would be ok if you requested a complete panel editor. nobody likes to code uis, be this a windows forms application or gamestudio. but a tool which does twenty percent of the job is quite unnecessary. personally, i hate botching code of a tool. that's like starting a html page in word and after that completing it in source code - you'd be faster starting from scratch.