Spinning Roulette Wheel
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38 in the U.S. -- 00 .
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Hi, I was just woundering if anyone knows how I would do this... I have an image of a roulette wheel, and I would like to animate it as it was spinning, faster to slower and then stop. How would I achive this using c# and winforms, as I am not ready to delve into WPF just yet? Thank you, Kind Regards, Steve
You should just bite the bullet and learn WPF. Doing this in, well, GDI/GDI+ is the correct term here since Winforms has nothing to do with your question, will require you to worry about such silly things as multi-threading, timers, double buffering, geometry, etc and you'll have to write a lot of code. In WPF, you just attach an animation that animates the rotation angle from 0 to 360 degrees and you're done. 5 minute job max. ZERO code as it can all be done with one line of XAML.
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You should just bite the bullet and learn WPF. Doing this in, well, GDI/GDI+ is the correct term here since Winforms has nothing to do with your question, will require you to worry about such silly things as multi-threading, timers, double buffering, geometry, etc and you'll have to write a lot of code. In WPF, you just attach an animation that animates the rotation angle from 0 to 360 degrees and you're done. 5 minute job max. ZERO code as it can all be done with one line of XAML.
SledgeHammer01 wrote:
You should just bite the bullet and learn WPF.
What? While learning C#?
SledgeHammer01 wrote:
one line of XAML.
Could you show one line that does this? Either way, I am starting to lean toward the idea of WPF. Thank you, Steve
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SledgeHammer01 wrote:
You should just bite the bullet and learn WPF.
What? While learning C#?
SledgeHammer01 wrote:
one line of XAML.
Could you show one line that does this? Either way, I am starting to lean toward the idea of WPF. Thank you, Steve
See DoubleAnimation http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.media.animation.doubleanimation.aspx[^]. Ok, its a little more then one line :), but here is an easy example of animating the rotation transform http://www.galasoft.ch/mydotnet/articles/article-2006102701.aspx[^]
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PIEBALDconsult wrote:
38 in the U.S. -- 00 .
0 for the casino. 00 for the government? :confused: ;)
Heck no, the guv'mint takes more than that.
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See DoubleAnimation http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.media.animation.doubleanimation.aspx[^]. Ok, its a little more then one line :), but here is an easy example of animating the rotation transform http://www.galasoft.ch/mydotnet/articles/article-2006102701.aspx[^]
Thank you, That has gave me something to look over the weekend. Regards, Stephen
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Hi, I was just woundering if anyone knows how I would do this... I have an image of a roulette wheel, and I would like to animate it as it was spinning, faster to slower and then stop. How would I achive this using c# and winforms, as I am not ready to delve into WPF just yet? Thank you, Kind Regards, Steve
For a more realistic spinning roulette wheel (even on a slow system) use blurred intermediate images. These will give an appearance more like what a person would actually perceive seeing a real wheel spinning. Transition to actual images as the wheel slows down.
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For a more realistic spinning roulette wheel (even on a slow system) use blurred intermediate images. These will give an appearance more like what a person would actually perceive seeing a real wheel spinning. Transition to actual images as the wheel slows down.
Alan Balkany wrote:
For a more realistic spinning roulette wheel (even on a slow system) use blurred intermediate images. These will give an appearance more like what a person would actually perceive seeing a real wheel spinning. Transition to actual images as the wheel slows down.
This sounds like a very interesting idea, however, I would not have a clue where to start by doing this. Would you possibly be able to provide a little more information please? Thank you, Regards, Stephen
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Alan Balkany wrote:
For a more realistic spinning roulette wheel (even on a slow system) use blurred intermediate images. These will give an appearance more like what a person would actually perceive seeing a real wheel spinning. Transition to actual images as the wheel slows down.
This sounds like a very interesting idea, however, I would not have a clue where to start by doing this. Would you possibly be able to provide a little more information please? Thank you, Regards, Stephen
This http://www.blackpawn.com/texts/blur/default.html[^] gives basic blurring algorithms, but they're rectangle-oriented, and you need to adapt them for rotation. So, instead of averaging in a rectangular region for each pixel, you'd use an arc representing a fraction of the roulette wheel's rotation, at the pixel's distance from the center +/- a delta constant.
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This http://www.blackpawn.com/texts/blur/default.html[^] gives basic blurring algorithms, but they're rectangle-oriented, and you need to adapt them for rotation. So, instead of averaging in a rectangular region for each pixel, you'd use an arc representing a fraction of the roulette wheel's rotation, at the pixel's distance from the center +/- a delta constant.
Thank you, I will look into this. Regards, Stephen