disabling animations

Version of Radiance (current development is 4.0-SNAPSHOT)

3.5.1

Sub-project (Neon, Trident, Substance, Flamingo, …)

Substance?

Version of Java (current minimum is 9)

13

Version of OS

Ubuntu 16

The issue you’re experiencing (expected vs actual, screenshot, stack trace etc)

Thanks, this is a fantastic project. I’m attempting to disable the animations on the Substance Graphite look and feel - in particular the fade-to-white on hover-over a JButton and Menu Item. My first attempt at this is below…but no luck. Any ideas?

                  for ( SubstanceSlices.AnimationFacet sf : new SubstanceSlices.AnimationFacet[]{
                            SubstanceSlices.AnimationFacet.ROLLOVER,
                            SubstanceSlices.AnimationFacet.GHOSTING_BUTTON_PRESS,
                            SubstanceSlices.AnimationFacet.GHOSTING_ICON_ROLLOVER,
                            SubstanceSlices.AnimationFacet.ICON_GLOW,
                            SubstanceSlices.AnimationFacet.SELECTION,
                            SubstanceSlices.AnimationFacet.GHOSTING_BUTTON_PRESS,
                            SubstanceSlices.AnimationFacet.FOCUS,
                            SubstanceSlices.AnimationFacet.FOCUS_LOOP_ANIMATION,
                            SubstanceSlices.AnimationFacet.PRESS,
                            SubstanceSlices.AnimationFacet.ARM,
                    } ) {
					    AnimationConfigurationManager.getInstance().disallowAnimations( sf, JTabbedPane.class );
					    AnimationConfigurationManager.getInstance().disallowAnimations( sf, JButton.class );
					    AnimationConfigurationManager.getInstance().disallowAnimations( sf, JMenuItem.class );
					    AnimationConfigurationManager.getInstance().disallowAnimations( sf, JMenu.class );
                    }

[kirill-grouchnikov]

See https://github.com/kirill-grouchnikov/substance/issues/28

I thought I added a bit more comments around the scope of what disallowAnimations does, but I didn’t. I’ll add it to the relevant SubstanceCortex APIs (note that you shouldn’t be using AnimationConfigurationManager directly, as that is in an internal package).

The short answer is that you can’t selectively disable animations on components beyond a few specific cases like cell renderers and custom icon glows. And there are no plans to extend that functionality to control the other animations.

[twak]

I ended up using:

AnimationConfigurationManager.setTimelineDuration(0)

as suggested in the linked post - this increases the responsiveness on a slow system for me. Thanks again!