Programming with .NET - General

Can't Create Storyboard from Scratch in Code

SL 1.1, C#

I may have screwed something up, but It looks like you can't create and use a storyboard from code.

Storyboard board = new Storyboard();

... (set other storyboard properties)

DoubleAnimation animation = new DoubleAnimation();

... (set animation properties)

board.Children.Add(animation); // <-- can't do this, as there is no add property. Children is a TimeLineGroup with no add function.

Did I do something wrong, or is that not yet supported?

Thanks.

Pete

Re: Can't Create Storyboard from Scratch in Code

This doesn't work currently, you can create the appropriate XAML for your storyboard and children and then do a CreateFromXaml, see this thread for more information:

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

Another thing I've done is put placeholders in my XAML for the control or the page and then populate the values at run time, for example I would create a storyboard and a doubleanimation child in my XAML, and then set the to and from, and even the target element at run time.

Re: Re: Can't Create Storyboard from Scratch in Code

Thanks Bill.

I'm glad I wasn't just doing something dumb :)

While waiting for a response, I ended up changing the code to use Xaml stubbed animation. If anyone is interested, you can see the results and download the code here in the quick Silverlight Balloons project.

Pete