right way to fade in?

[pintas]

I'm trying to fade a window but i ran into some problems.

I tried using WinAnimate.au3 but it flickers, because i want the window to have a particular transparency value. So the fade in effect goes to transparency value 255 and then back.

I also tried this?

For $TRANSCOUNT = 0 To 220 Step - 10
    WinSetTrans($2gui, "", $TRANSCOUNT)
    Sleep(15)
Next

But nothing happens...

How can i do this right?

Edited January 22, 2009 by pintas

[KJohn]

I'm trying to fade a window but i ran into some problems.

I tried using WinAnimate.au3 but it flickers, because i want the window to have a particular transparency value. So the fade in effect goes to transparency value 255 and then back.

I also tried this?

For $TRANSCOUNT = 0 To 220 Step - 10
    WinSetTrans($2gui, "", $TRANSCOUNT)
    Sleep(15)
Next

But nothing happens...

How can i do this right?

DllCall("user32.dll", "int", "AnimateWindow", "hwnd", $handle, "int", 140, "long", 0x00080000)

just before GUISetState()...

$handle is the handle returned by GUICreate and in this example, 140 is the time in millisecs for the fade in to occur (smaller for faster fade ins). Use WinSetTrans to set the desired transparency after GUISetState()...

[pintas]

Thanks for your reply, but the flicker occurs as well. Its not a smooth transition.

I'm trying to use a very small transparency value, something like 100, and that way the fade goes from 0 to 255 and then back to 100, it doesn't look very good.

Any other way?

[KJohn]

Thanks for your reply, but the flicker occurs as well. Its not a smooth transition.

I'm trying to use a very small transparency value, something like 100, and that way the fade goes from 0 to 255 and then back to 100, it doesn't look very good.

Any other way?

Back to square one then.. The for loop method is your best bet then. The reason why nothing happened is:

For $TRANSCOUNT = 0 To 220 Step - 10

WinSetTrans($2gui, "", $TRANSCOUNT)

Sleep(15)

Next

A For loop will execute zero times if:

start > stop and step > 0, or

start < stop and step is negative

So nothing in your for loop actually ever executed. Edited January 22, 2009 by Koshy John

[pintas]

That's because i'm too much of a n00b! I was trying this for the fade out, i thought the reversed values would do the opposite.

For $TRANSCOUNT = 254 To 0 Step - 10
        WinSetTrans($2gui, "", $TRANSCOUNT)
        Sleep(15)
    Next

So i reversed the values to see if it worked.

But how can i fix that?

Edited January 22, 2009 by pintas

[KJohn]

That's because i'm too much of a n00b! I was trying this for the fade out, i thought the reversed values would do the opposite.

For $TRANSCOUNT = 254 To 0 Step - 10
        WinSetTrans($2gui, "", $TRANSCOUNT)
        Sleep(15)
    Next

So i reversed the values to see if it worked.

But how can i fix that?

For $TRANSCOUNT = 0 To 255 Step 10
    WinSetTrans($2gui, "", $TRANSCOUNT)
    Sleep(15)
Next

I hope that answers your question...

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