Vista - What items can I apply transitions to?

Hello,

I'm just starting to transition from WinForms to WPF and have a few
questions. What items can I apply transitions to? The application I need to
build requires many different media types transitioning in and out of the
maid WPF screen - Video, Web Content, RSS Feed, static images, text, etc.

I played with the basic fade transition demonstrated here:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...AnimateSection
which fades a rectangle object in and out, but I was unable to figure out how
to apply it to web content shown in my grid. Here is what I converted the
code to in my feeble attempt:

<Grid Name="myGrid" Loaded="myLoaded">
<Frame Source="http://www.google.com/" />
<Grid.Triggers>
<EventTrigger RoutedEvent="Grid.Loaded">
<BeginStoryboard Name="myStoryBoard">
<Storyboard>
<DoubleAnimation
Storyboard.TargetName="myGrid"
Storyboard.TargetProperty="Opacity"
From="1.0" To="0.0" Duration="0:0:5"
AutoReverse="True" RepeatBehavior="Forever" />
</Storyboard>
</BeginStoryboard>
</EventTrigger>
</Grid.Triggers>
</Grid>

Could anyone help me get a better handle on what my limitations are here? Do
I need to load video and web content in a different type of object?

Thanks,

Glenn

Hi Glenn,

Glenn wrote:You can apply transitions (and generally any kind of transforms) to
DirectX content. Unfortunately, you cannot apply this to any content
drawn to GDI. And as you had to find out the hard way, the Frame element
is using Internet Explorer to display web pages, and guess what, IE
draws against GDI... so no luck applying the transition there.

Video, images, text and other content can be transformed, so transitions
will work.

Sorry :-(
Laurent
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Not that answer I was hoping for . But thanks so much for the response.

Glenn

"Laurent Bugnion, MVP" wrote: