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#17152 — Re: Light Box Effect (2 Windows, 1 Smaller And Active Above Inactive

From: clusardi2k@aol.com

On Friday, August 3, 2012 3:56:28 PM UTC-4, markspace wrote:
>>Wrote:There's also a book call Swing Hacks which has some interesting ideas,
>>including an animated window similar to what you are asking for. Still not
>> exactly a lightbox however.

There are 2 books with that title from 2005.

I think Amazon says the book is old!

Thanks,

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#17153

  To: clusardi2k
From: markspace <-@.>

On 8/3/2012 12:59 PM, clusardi2k@aol.com wrote:
> On Friday, August 3, 2012 3:56:28 PM UTC-4, markspace wrote:
>>> Wrote:There's also a book call Swing Hacks which has some interesting
ideas,
>>> including an animated window similar to what you are asking for. Still not
>>> exactly a lightbox however.
>
> There are 2 books with that title from 2005.
>
> I think Amazon says the book is old!
>


It is old.  But the code still works, and shows some important things that are 
not available anywhere else.  Old is not always bad.

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#17165

  To: markspace
From: clusardi2k@aol.com

On Friday, August 3, 2012 4:31:06 PM UTC-4, markspace wrote:
>>> Wrote:There's also a book call Swing Hacks which has
>>> some interesting ideas, including an animated window
>>> similar to what you are asking for. Still not exactly
>>> a lightbox however.

For a cost of $4.24, I'll definiately have the following book in about a week:

Swing Hacks: Tips and Tools for Killer GUIs(1st Edition) by Joshua Marinacci, 
Chris Adamson
Paperback, 546 Pages, Published 2005 by O'reilly Media ISBN-13: 
978-0-596-00907-6, ISBN: 0-596-00907-0

Funny, how something so rich in ideas can be so inexpensive.

So thanks for another shelf book, but I won't keep my fingers crossed on me 
building the best of the best in this case.

And, I don't think I'll ever be able to develop the animation totally on my 
own! My implementation would amount to being too slow, etc, etc, etc.

Anyway, what's wrong with just disabling a large window below a smaller enabled 
window?

(I'll probably try to just live with that.)

Does anyone have a project which hints of a light box effect. The code doesn't 
have to be a full blown light box effect.

Thanks,

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  To: clusardi2k
From: markspace <-@.>

On 8/4/2012 1:16 AM, clusardi2k@aol.com wrote:

> Swing Hacks: Tips and Tools for Killer GUIs(1st Edition) by Joshua
> Marinacci, Chris Adamson

> So thanks for another shelf book, but I won't keep my fingers crossed
> on me building the best of the best in this case.


Yes, that's the book.  When you get it, Hack #45, Animating a Sheet Dialog, is 
the one I am thinking of.  It shows how to make an animation for a dialog as it 
appears and disappears.  Similar to the Mac interface at the time it was 
written.  I think you could use the same technique to grey the background and 
then display your dialog on top to make a lightbox.

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