is it possible to animate sliding widgets on show/hide

**discostu** · 4th March 2007, 05:44

Hi, I was wondering if there is a nice clean way to have a widget slide in/out when you show/hide it. Some sort of animated transition. I haven't been able to find anything through searching so far.

Thanks.

**e8johan** · 4th March 2007, 08:58

The QTimeLine class is used for this. You will still have to add code to perform the actual animation, but it is a start.

**fullmetalcoder** · 4th March 2007, 08:59

Originally Posted by discostu

Hi, I was wondering if there is a nice clean way to have a widget slide in/out when you show/hide it. Some sort of animated transition. I haven't been able to find anything through searching so far.

The only limits to graphical programming are :

your imagination
the power of your computer

I'm pretty sure you can craft what you want but I doubt someone can do it for you without some more informations... I suggest you to have a look at Qt sources and get some inspiration from the animated showing/hiding of dock widgets (since Qt 4.2). I think you should find this code in a file named qmainwindow.cpp or qmainwindowlayout.cpp