Advanced GDI routines
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acAnimateWindow procedure
Advanced GDI routines |
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| acGraphics
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| procedure acAnimateWindow(Form: TForm; Time: Word; AnimationType: TacWin2kAnimationFlags; Open: Boolean);
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| The acAnimateWindow procedure produces special effects when showing or hiding windows. There are three types of animation: roll, slide and alpha-blended fade (blending works on Win2000 and higher).
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| Use the acAnimateWindow in OnShow and OnClose events of your form. Also you can use acWin2kEffects component instead of this procedure.
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| Form | Pointer to the form to animate;
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| Time | Duration of animation;
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| AnimationType | Flags specifying the type of the animation;
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| Open | Which effect to draw. Set Open parameter to True to show the opening effect and False to show the hiding effect.
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| Windows NT/2000: Requires Windows 2000 or later.
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| Windows 95/98: Requires Windows 98 or later.
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 If you call this function on Win95, or on Win98 with AW_BLEND parameter — nothing happends.
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| acWin2kEffects component and AnimateWindow function.
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