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Topic:  Like Moppi DemoPaja TimeLine control
* Posted by halt Friday 22 April 2005 - 9:57 
Hi!!!
Currently working on building own demosystem and really need something like TimeLine control for MFC. Now trying to make it myself but I realize it take much time to make it as good as Moppi's. And it will be offensively during the invent of bicycle :-) to find out something like this available in source code. Is somebody know where can I get such thing as an MFC-extension or Active-X???

Thanks!!!

* Posted by smash Friday 22 April 2005 - 10:21 
no, but write your own. from my experience (i have a similar thing in our introtool) the timeline control is quite tied to your tool's structure - layers, fx, keyframe+spline editing etc - so it's one thing thats worth writing it yourself and customising it for the project.

it's not _that_ hard to make either, just follow the usual rules for making your own controls in mfc, then draw rects for the bars and do some brute force hit testing.

* Posted by halt Friday 22 April 2005 - 14:18 
:-)) I'm almost at the end point of my research. But for now my timeline doesn't support curves and it's a kinda tricky to insert it in timeline. What about keyframe+spline editing it's much faster to convert the structures on the fly from timeline lists to my own suitable for my engine and effect code than develop the timeline control. I just don't like making something already developed somewhere by someone :-)
I use STL and think such things must use something common to allow easy sharing in different projects...

* Posted by kolloffnikoff Wednesday 4 May 2005 - 14:39 
maybe you include opengl/directx to draw the splines/curves throu every keyframe with fast hardwaresupport and easy accessable functions.

[Post edited by kolloffnikoff on Wednesday 4 May 2005 - 14:39]

* Posted by halt Tuesday 17 May 2005 - 15:11 
:-)) I think it's not necessary because using such API like DX or GL in Component code needs extra libs at least and makes it more dependent on API you use in the project. GDI should be enough for such tasks and I use GDI without any accell API.

[Post edited by halt on Tuesday 17 May 2005 - 15:13]

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