How to use the AnimatedTransition API (SwingX and Timingframework)

Summary

I needed to perform animations in the app that I’m building (http://screamingtoaster.com). I needed to build animations that show a transition from one screen to another. This is slightly different than creating custom, or modified components which perform a function and have a set of graphical effects. I needed animations that would transition my user interface from one “screen” to the next. The screens themselves could be panels or components (part of the whole app, or the entire app itself). While I’d been writing much of this code myself, to do these animations, it just got really tedious and frustrating to add this level of complexity to my code, when all I needed were some simple animations. I’ve been using the SwingX API and the TimingFramework API to perform the animations and leverage the components, however, this last piece was missing. And this last piece just got delivered by Chet Haase, as a part of the binary deliverables with his (and Romain Guy’s) great book – Filthy Rich Clients.

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