dynamically insert a storyboard?

2 replies. Latest Post by cdubone on May 5, 2008.

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dynamically insert a storyboard?

05-05-2008 4:59 AM |

Is there a way to dynamically change the content of a storyboard (double animations and such)? What I mean is I would like to have:
<Storyboard x:Name="Animation">
</Storyboard>
hard coded into my application, and then on a button click insert some DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames. I'd also like to clear the content in order to insert more. Is this possible?

Chris Williams

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Re: dynamically insert a storyboard?

05-05-2008 9:52 AM |

What about creating the entire storyboard object dynamically?

For example:

string sbdef = @"<Storyboard>
<DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames BeginTime='00:00:00' Storyboard.TargetName='text1' Storyboard.TargetProperty='(UIElement.RenderTransform).(TransformGroup.Children)[2].(RotateTransform.Angle)'>
<SplineDoubleKeyFrame KeyTime='00:00:00.5000000' Value='{0}'/>
</DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames>
</Storyboard>";
double angle=0;
void Clicked(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
angle +=90;
Storyboard sb= (Storyboard) XamlReader.Load(String.Format(sbdef, angle));
this.Resources.Add (sb);
sb.Begin();
}

Ref: http://silverlight.net/forums/t/842.aspx

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Re: dynamically insert a storyboard?

05-05-2008 6:01 PM |

Cool, thanks! I'm actually doing something very similar to this already. The difference is that I'm unpacking it from a zip (along with images and a media file). It turns out the problem I was having wasn't being caused by this as I thought, it was something totally different.

Thanks for the help!

Chris Williams