From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/16462 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Metapost animation Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 10:22:57 +0200 Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Message-ID: <4147FBE1.5060607@wxs.nl> References: <4145D194.5040604@econ.muni.cz> <41471D63.4050108@wxs.nl> <4147440F.7090702@econ.muni.cz> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1095236590 2942 80.91.229.6 (15 Sep 2004 08:23:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 08:23:10 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Sep 15 10:23:04 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C7V4C-0001HW-00 for ; Wed, 15 Sep 2004 10:23:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F9A012795; Wed, 15 Sep 2004 10:23:04 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 06238-07-6; Wed, 15 Sep 2004 10:23:01 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3237F12788; Wed, 15 Sep 2004 10:23:01 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21D9A12788 for ; Wed, 15 Sep 2004 10:23:00 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 06238-07-5 for ; Wed, 15 Sep 2004 10:22:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mailrelay01.solcon.nl (unknown [212.45.32.200]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A3F512780 for ; Wed, 15 Sep 2004 10:22:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by mailrelay01.solcon.nl (8.12.11/SQL-8.12.11-5/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i8F8MvFQ028893 for ; Wed, 15 Sep 2004 10:22:57 +0200 Original-Received: by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id E672E31D74; Wed, 15 Sep 2004 10:22:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.191] (unknown [10.100.1.191]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90F5617B84 for ; Wed, 15 Sep 2004 08:22:57 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Windows/20040502) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <4147440F.7090702@econ.muni.cz> X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version 0.73, clamav-milter version 0.73a on mailrelay01.solcon.nl X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:16462 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:16462 Michal Kvasnicka wrote: > Hm. Do you quote the Metafun manual, section 13.6? I know this > technique. But my question was different: Is it possible to `animate' > the fieldstack? In other words, to make it change one figure to > another automatically, without clicking anywhere, changing one frame > to another each 1/n second to simulate a smoth motion like in a cinema? sure, you can let a javascript toggle the states; however, small steps (<1 sec) are not to be trusted in precission, since they also depend on the machine; they also kind of block other actions since there is no concept of animation in pdf (apart from svg, which is poorly implemented/integrated). Another method is demonstrated in the 'dante XV' presentation (runs slightly faster on a mac than on windows); Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------