I'm having some issues on creating a fade in effect of a grid.
I want a grid coming out after a click, is this possible?
Thanks!
I'm having some issues on creating a fade in effect of a grid.
I want a grid coming out after a click, is this possible?
Thanks!
You can use a Storyboard and animate the Opacity property to produce a Fade In effect, the following thread covers the code required :-
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/is/windowsphone7series/thread/a8e05145-364d-412c-8fb5-faf65e80344e
A tad too late to the party, as I just wrote pretty much the same as Hermit Dave, but maybe it helps to contribute to an even better understanding:
Another way is, setting your Storyboard items in XAML view, which, in my opinion, makes it a little cleaner than pure C# code. For this, you can declare within a <Grid.Resources>
your storyboard, like so:
<!-- Animates the a control's height. -->
<Grid.Resources>
<Storyboard x:Name="Animation_Collapse">
<DoubleAnimation Storyboard.TargetName="Name_Of_Control"
Storyboard.TargetProperty="Height"
From="200" To="0" Duration="0:0:0.3" />
</Storyboard>
<Storyboard x:Name="Animation_Expand">
<DoubleAnimation Storyboard.TargetName="Name_Of_Control"
Storyboard.TargetProperty="Height"
From="0" To="200" Duration="0:0:0.3" />
</Storyboard>
</Grid.Resources>
Here, you have declared 2 animations, for collapsing and expanding the targetted control. You can also set a lot of attributes, like start and target values (From, To) and Duration (here it takes 300ms).
In your .cs file, you can execute this by simply calling the method
Animation_Collapse.Begin();
or Animation_Expand.Begin();
Just put that into your button_click eventhandler for example. The storyboard is in the System.Windows.Media.Animation namespace.
same answer as Paul but i had it open in a project :P took me a while to understand storyboard to give you a sample
<Storyboard x:Name="fadeText">
<DoubleAnimation Storyboard.TargetName="tbData"
Storyboard.TargetProperty="Opacity" From="1.0"
To="0" Duration="0:0:1" AutoReverse="True" />
<DoubleAnimation Storyboard.TargetName="btnReset"
Storyboard.TargetProperty="Opacity" From="1.0"
To="0" Duration="0:0:1" AutoReverse="True" />
</Storyboard>