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Animate

Section: Misc. Reference Manual Pages (1.4)
Updated: January 1998
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NAME

Animate - the AfterStep Animate module

SYNOPSIS

Animate is spawned by afterstep, so no command line invocation will work.From within the autoexec file or as a menu option, Animate is spawned asfollows:

Module Animate

or from within an afterstep pop-up menu by 'Animate' without 'Module':

% cat "~/GNUstep/Library/AfterStep/start/Modules/Animate iconify"Animate

DESCRIPTION

The Animate module animates window actions. It currently animatesiconification and deiconification in a zoom style or a twisty spinning style.

INITIALIZATION

During initialization, Animate will eventually search a configuration file which describes the time-outs and actions to take.The configuration file is ~/GNUstep/Library/AfterStep/animate .

INVOCATION

The invocation method was shown in the synopsis section

CONFIGURATION OPTIONS

Animate reads ~/GNUstep/Library/AfterStep/animate when it starts up,and looks for certain configuration options:

*AnimateColor color: Tells Animate what color to draw with.
*AnimateDelay msecs: Tells Animate how many milliseconds to sleep between frames of animation.
*AnimateIterations iterations: Tells Animate how many steps to break the animation into.
*AnimateTwist twist: Tells Animate how many revolutions to twist the iconification frame.
*AnimateWidth width: Tells Animate how wide a line to draw with. Note that with 0 is a fast lineat Width 1
*AnimateResize mode: Tells Animate what method to use to draw resizes. zoom, twist,flip, turn & random are currently supported.

AUTHORS

Alfredo Kengi Kojima <kojimaAATTinf.ufrgs.br>

Kaj Groner <kajgAATTmindspring.com>

Frank Scheelen <scheelenAATTworldonline.nl>

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