Java Development

[saravanakumaran]

I want to make slide transition effect in my blackberry application from navigating one screen to another screen.But when i collect information regarding this i can know that this effect only possible with 5.0 version.Is there any way to achieve this effect in lower version.

[klyubin]

At one of the talks at the Developer Conference this year RIM employees demonstrated the following interesting approach to generating screen transitions without the need for v5.0.0 OS.

Assume you need to transition from screen A to screen B. Screen A is on the display stack, whereas screen B is not. You push screen B onto the display stack, then immediately push screen C onto the display stack. Screen C is a composite screen that is initiated with references to screens A and B. Screen C has no controls, it simply reimplements the paint method. Screen C's paint method receives a Graphics instance from the OS, then invokes screen A's paint method and screen B's paint method superimposing their output on to the Graphics object (of screen C). All you need to do is periodically repaint (timer or invokeLater with recurrence parameters) screen C while changing the mixture between A and B. Once the transition is finished (by which time screen C will look exactly like screen B), screen C is popped off the display stack thus leaving the actual screen B on the stack.

[rcmaniac25]

That is a very neat little trick, since it was a talk done by RIM and not a partner I wonder if that is something similar to what they abstracted and made as separate functions in 5.0.

[peter_strange]

I asked one of the presenters this question and was told they were a different department and had nothing to do with the OS 5.0 transition development.  So he didn't know how the OS 5.0 transition processing was done.

[rcmaniac25]

Understandable, still I find that an interesting way of doing transitions.

[ennova2005]

At the time, RIM presenters had said they were going to release the code for several transition effects.  Has anyone found these online ?

[peter_strange]

Downloadable from the Session Catalog.  You will need to log back in to the DevCon  Web site, get the Session catalog up and you can see it there.

Sorry I can't give the exact procedure, seems I go in a different way each time. 

[ennova2005]

For those of you who attended the DevCon2009 or otherwise have been granted access to the materials, the source code for some of the animations can be found here. It needs a username/password given to registered attendees.

http://www.blackberrydeveloperconference.net/2009/published/sessions/DEV14/DEV14_Source_Files.zip

(It is 20MB+ file as it has some videos)

The license is fairly restrictive, so dont want to post the animation code here. The transitions code itself is only ~50KB.

Someone from RIM can post the code if they like.

[rcmaniac25]

Are you sure? I didn't go to Developer Conference and was able to download it. You might have circumscribed the login requirement by posting the link.

Also the license is the same as the one they use for the samples that come with the JDE and Eclipse plug-in. It simply states that the sample doesn't use resources which are recommended and that it is for demonstration purposes and might not be complete or error free. At least that's how I interpret the license.

I'm not sure if I got access to this correctly or if I'm not supposed to have this. Either way, thanks.