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Current graphical user interface toolkits, by and large, provide widgets that have a static appearance. The focus of this paper is to outline some additions that we have made to a toolkit to support animated widgets, such as menus that open smoothly, buttons that bounce and slide when pushed, and animated labels.
The animations that underly these new widgets rely on straightforward applications of well-known techniques for cartoon and computer animation. Our concern in this paper is to describe how we packaged the techniques into a form that application programmers could readily use. In particular, we describe extensions we made to the InterViews 3.1 toolkit.
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Thomas, B.H., Calder, P.R. (1995). Animating widgets in the interViews toolkit. In: Blumenthal, B., Gornostaev, J., Unger, C. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction. EWHCI 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1015. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60614-9_3
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