The documentation for HBox and VBox includes the statement:
Deprecated: Use Box instead, which is a very quick and easy change.
But we recommend switching to Grid, since Box will go away eventually.
However, it isn't obvious what the "quick and easy change" should be.
How do you use Box and/or Grid to achieve the functionality of VBox or HBox?
One of the big changes in gtkmm3:
Gtk::Box, Gtk::ButtonBox, Gtk::IconView, Gtk::Paned, Gtk::ProgressBar,
Gtk::ScaleButton, Gtk::ScrollBar and Gtk::Separator now derive from
Gtk::Orientable, allowing their orientation (vertical or horizontal)
to be specified without requiring the use of a derived class such as
Gtk::HBox.
Although Grid isn't mentioned above, both containers now have a method set_orientation; Box can also take it in the constructor. So for Box, set the orientation and use your usual pack_start, pack_end.
With Grid, if you scrutinize the documentation, you'll see this line:
Grid can be used like a Box by just using Gtk::Container::add(), which
will place children next to each other in the direction determined by
the orientation property.
So, it should be as simple as setting the orientation and then add your child widgets.
Is there a way to prevent my MKMapView from animating when I add a new annotation?
I have a number of annotations on my map that I'd like updated fairly regularly from an online API. As of now I simply remove all annotations and add back the new API results. However whenever any annotation is added the map automatically pans to them which is disorienting. The map should stay wherever the user currently has it positioned. Thank you.
I was setting the region in my add annotations function. Face palm.
I'm quite new to blender, and I'm doing some experiments with it.
I've been searching for a way to make an object disappear from sight at a particular key-frame, without moving it out of the camera view. E.g. at frame 1, cube is there, at (0, 0, 0) and at frame 2, it's not visible anymore, but still there at position (0,0,0), at frame 3 it gets visible again.
After searching the web, I came upon this page which suggests to move the object to another layer, but since it applies to blender 2.49, it seems the software has changed since then: I'm unable to find the 'Layer' option when inserting a key-frame.
I've found some other sites but either they suggest to use a technique similar to the one linked above, or they suggest to change the alpha of the texture, which I'm not interested in.
So, what's the preferred method to make an object invisible in blender 2.59?
Additional information (not relevant for the answer I'm expecting, IMO):
I'm using blender to make models for Unity.
I'm using 2.59 because that's the one that works with the unity version that I have.
There are lots of ways to achieve this effect.
The easiest way is to keyframe the visibility of the object.
To do this, you simply go to the outliner, and click the little eyeball next to your object name, then hover over the closed eyeball and hit "i" to keyframe. The eye will then turn yellow to indicate it's keyframed. Do the same with the camera icon (so that your render behaves the same way). Then go to the point where you want the object to appear, and click the eyball and camera again to make them reappear, then hit "i" again over each to keyframe them... Isn't blender a wonderful program? I love being able to keyframe just about everything! :D
There are also these less easy, but variously useful methods, which you may also use in case you want some sort of transition in your vanishing/appearing:
My perferred way is to just move the opbejct off the screen, keyframe position, then set the animation (in the Graph Editor) curve type to "constant" (Key -> Interpolation Mode -> Constant), and move the object into place and set the keyframe where you want it to appear. It will thus instantaneously appear.
Set the material properties of the object to Transparent, and choose "Z-Transparency" and set alpha to 0. Then simply keyframe the alpha (hover mouse over Alpha value and hit "i"), then go to where you want it to appear, change the alpha value to 1, and keyframe again. This will make it fade in over time, or you can change the curve to constant in the Graph editor, as described in method 1.
If you want to mask the object while it is still in place, you could make a cube around it, set the cube material transparency to "mask", and then move the cube off camera to unmask the object, rather than moving the object. This is handy for when you want to partially unmask something in the course of the animation. For example, if you are creating a text overlay for a video, where you want text to appear as if it's coming out of your hand, you can animate the masked object to follow the contour of your hand as it pulls away to reveal the text.
In Blender 2.65, you can animate the objects visibility toggle in your Outliner panel.
Next to your scene objects there will be three icons: an eye, a cursor, and a camera.
Follow these steps to animate viewport visibility:
Find the object you wish to animate in the Outliner Panel
Mouse over the eye icon and hit "i" on your keyboard to set a keyframe.
Go to the next frame and turn the eye off, then hit "i" moused over it again.
Do the same thing with the camera icon to animate render visibility. I will usually keyframe both the viewport and render visibility icons in tandem so as not to forget to have these toggled when its time to render.
In version 2.9 the eye icon cannot be used to set a keyframe. I've found the best way for me is to use the Object Properties tab and under Transform set the three scale values (X,Y,Z) to zero for invisibility. You can then click the diamond to the right to set the keyframe. To make the object re-appear return the scale values to their original and click on the diamond keyframe icon again.
Obviously you can make it a lot easier for yourself by applying scale to the objects first then just switch them between 0 and 1.
AFAIK there is no easy way to directly set an object invisible in your case. Although the visibility can be animated in Blender (in outline view mive your cursor on the eye and press i) Unity3D doesn't recognise it.
Possible workarounds:
Move it to (1000, 0, 0)
Scale it by a very small value
A more elaborated approach could be to use a driver like when turning FK/IK animation on and off dynamically via a variable.
I found out (today!) that, in Blender 2.8 (& presumably beyond), you can control visibility of objects in animations either in viewports and/or renders. Select the object and, in the Object Properties, open the Visibility section. You will see a dot beside the Viewports and Renders options. Click on the dot in either Viewports or Renders (or both). The relevant boxes should turn green. Either make the object visible or invisible by checking or clearing its box and then click 'i' to insert a keyframe. Repeat the process in other keyframes.
Another way to do this is to make a cube around it and add a boolean modifier to the object you want to disappear, set the operation to difference and select the cube as the modifier's object target. Then turn off the cube's visibility and animate the visibility of the modifier.
I have an application that is an NSStatusItem.
It has a few different modes, each of which require an external process to be launched, during which the icon is simply highlighted, and appears to be frozen.
I want to use the -setImage: method (or reasonable facsimile) to display something along the lines of a "spinner" commonly seen in web applications and all over OS X.
Is there any native method for accomplishing this (e.g. some instance of NSProgressIndicator?) or must I manually display an animation by cycling through a set of images?
In either case, how would I implement?
In order to have it be animated (and not just a static image), you'll probably need to use -setView: and give it a custom view (which then animates itself). You might be able to get away with using a suitably-configured standard NSProgressIndicator (i.e. set to NSProgressIndicatorSpinningStyle style, etc.) as that "custom view".
But, if the NSProgressIndicator standard sizes don't work well, then you can check out my YRKSpinningProgressIndicator (BSD-licensed), which is a clone of the spinning NSProgressIndicator that can be set to arbitrary size and colors.
I'm trying to show the "selection" of a certain sub-string in a
gtk.TextView by drawing a border around the word. The only way to mark
text in a TextView that I've found so far is by placing TextTags with
modified properties. This does not seem to offer a way to draw a border,
though, DOES GTK SUPPORT THIS OR IS THIS A PROBLEM WITH ONLT PYGTK
I figured out how to draw on a text view !!!
To begin with lets assume the reference to your gtk.TextView is in a variable called viewer, Inside one of ur classes
Also the draw function has to be called with an event called expose-event else the drawings will be refreshed and will not stay on the screen
The next part is the gtk.TextView consists of 7 types of gtk.gdk.windows on which u can draw
gtk.TEXT_WINDOW_WIDGET
gtk.TEXT_WINDOW_TEXT
gtk.TEXT_WINDOW_LEFT - not displayed by default
gtk.TEXT_WINDOW_RIGHT - not displayed by default
gtk.TEXT_WINDOW_TOP - not displayed by default
gtk.TEXT_WINDOW_BOTTOM
gtk.TEXT_WINDOW_PRIVATE
For the drawing to appear on gtk.TextView We have to draw on gtk.TEXT_WINDOW_TEXT
An Example Code is as shown Below
if(viewer!=None):
viewer.connect("expose-event", expose_view)
self.drawable=viewer.get_window(gtk.TEXT_WINDOW_TEXT)
def expose_view(self,window,event):
if(self.drawable!=None):
self.drawable.draw_line(self.drawable.new_gc(),1,1,30,30)
# (1,1) and (30,30) are the coordinates and u can give the values accordingly
In a gtk.TextBuffer tags are used to set one or more pre-defined text attributes. Without subclassing, this is limited to the properties of a gtk.TextTag, and doesn't include anything akin to a border or outline property. There is no difference between PyGTK and plain GTK+ in this regard.
While somewhat hacky, the easiest way to do what you want to do is to connect to the expose-event of your gtk.TextView, get the coordinates of your string and draw on event.window, which is the gdk.Window of the event provided in the expose callback.
(Note that you don't have to get and store the gtk.TEXT_WINDOW_TEXT window, you just need to check what window the expose event is for in the callback, probably ignoring the expose if it's not for the text window.)
Instead, you could presumably subclass one or more of TextBuffer/TextView/TextTag to add a border tag, but whether it's reasonable to do so is another question.