Re: Q's: Animation & GTK Markup Language

["Daniel Solaz" <dsolaz sistelcom com>]

Phil Dawes wrote:
>2) I've noticed that the new windoze gui controls are becoming more
>'animated' (seems to be since IE4 and the active-desktop patches). Key
>examples are the html scrolling (which glides smoothly (50fps) in
>blocks) and the tree control which 'falls' open as if under the
>influence of
>gravity. Is there any base-class support for this kind of widget-level
>animation in gtk? Perhaps it could be hacked using timeout signals
>etc..?
Apps should be worth *using*, not *seeing*. Unfortunately, M$ has
forgotten that. Have a look at http://www.iarchitect.com/mshame.htm.
I hope we don't make the same mistakes.