AdwAnimation

A base class for animations.

AdwAnimation represents an animation on a widget. It has a target that provides a value to animate, and a state indicating whether the animation hasn’t been started yet, is playing, paused or finished.

Currently there are two concrete animation types: AdwTimedAnimation and AdwSpringAnimation.

AdwAnimation will automatically skip the animation if AdwAnimation:widget is unmapped, or if GtkSettings:gtk-enable-animations is FALSE.

The AdwAnimation::done signal can be used to perform an action after the animation ends, for example hiding a widget after animating its GtkWidget:opacity to 0.

AdwAnimation will be kept alive while the animation is playing. As such, it’s safe to create an animation, start it and immediately unref it: A fire-and-forget animation:

static void
animation_cb (double    value,
              MyObject *self)
{
  // Do something with @value
}

static void
my_object_animate (MyObject *self)
{
  AdwAnimationTarget *target =
    adw_callback_animation_target_new ((AdwAnimationTargetFunc) animation_cb,
                                       self, NULL);
  g_autoptr (AdwAnimation) animation =
    adw_timed_animation_new (widget, 0, 1, 250, target);

  adw_animation_play (animation);
}

If there’s a chance the previous animation for the same target hasn’t yet finished, the previous animation should be stopped first, or the existing AdwAnimation object can be reused.