Architecture of switching between page panels

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Figures. I had assumed the the Amazing Christian Schmitz might have implemented his own solution.

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We do have MBS Plugins for Windows.
Just no function to animate a window resize.

But you can do that yourself with a timer. be aware it my flicker.

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I donā€™t have a Windows machine, but hereā€™s a crude window resize code thatā€™s done with a timer. I converted the code from someoneā€™s C# code so itā€™s a little flaky at the end and when trying to run the code again (perhaps someone smarter can help out)

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Updated the code, I made an error when converting the original code, so this is smoother (again, I only have my MacBook Pro)

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@Emily-Elizabeth_Howard ā€“

Thanks for taking the initiative! This appears to work nicely. Caveat: Iā€™m developing Windows by connecting my 2020 MacBook M1 Pro (albeit using high speed INTRAnet) via Microsoft Remote Desktop to a headless Windows 10 machine, so I canā€™t really see just how much flashing there is between your 12 resize frames. But from where I sit, it seems nice!

I wonder if calling DesktopWindow.Refresh with Immediately=True would improve, or degrade the appearance? Again, hard to tell until we try it on a real Windows-connected monitor.

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Windows users are not used to that.

Windows is not flashy per se, The xojo way of doing things in windows is flashy, so be careful and try to use a low end pc to cover the basis.

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The code above (post #8) works beautifully.
I wonder if it is possible to change the value of ā€˜animationResizeTimeā€™
which should allow to customise the ā€œduration of a smooth frame-size changeā€.

Thanks

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I donā€™t think you can change the animation speed

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Thanks. I was afraid so ā€¦ :smiling_face: