A lightweight cross platform .net animation & render engine.

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User Guide

TaskCoordinator

• The task coordinator is used to manage and apply each task.

Code Example

//Initialise the engine
PlexEngine plexEngine = new PlexEngine(new NullLoggerFactory(), new SystemTimerUpdater(RefreshRate.High));
plexEngine.Start();

//Creating tasks

//Move myRectangle to x position 100->200->0 over 250ms
var transformation1 = PlexFactory.Create(myRectangle, "X", TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(250), 100, 200, 0);

//wait for 100ms
var waitTask        = PlexFactory.Wait(TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(100));

//set myRectangle's opacity to 0.0 over 250 ms
var transformation2 = PlexFactory.Create(myRectangle, "Opacity", TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(250), 0.0);

//Create a sequential group of the above transformations
var hideRectangle   = PlexFactory.Sequential(transformation1, waitTask, transformation2});


//Set myRectangles width & height to 50 over 100ms at the SAME time
var transformation3 = PlexFactory.Create(myRectangle, "Width", TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(100), 50);
var transformation4 = PlexFactory.Create(myRectangle, "Height", TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(100), 50);
var shrinkRectangle = PlexFactory.Parallel(transformation1, transformation2});

//Apply task's whenever necessary
plexEngine.Apply(hideRectangle);
plexEngine.Apply(shrinkRectangle);

//Managing running tasks

//Pause and resume all running tasks
plexEngine.Pause();
plexEngine.Resume();

//Pause & Resume a single running task
plexEngine.Pause(transformation3);
plexEngine.Resume(transformation3);

//Cancel all running tasks and restart the task coordinator
plexEngine.Restart();

//Cancel all running tasks and release all resources
plexEngine.Stop();

Demos

• Find the application to run these demos in the 'WPFDemo' directory

SequentialTask

A group of tasks to be applied one after another

ParallelTask

A group of tasks to be applied at the same time

Composite example

An animation composed of a Parallel and Sequential groups