Help on states and transitions

Mark81

Hi, I'm trying to understand how the states and transitions works togheter. Basically, I have some variables that define the current state. For example, let's say we have:

property bool isActive: myClass.isActive

where myClass is a C++ class which has a notifiable property called isActive.
I want to animate some objects when this property changes. I tried this code:

states: [
        State {
            name: "ACTIVE";  when: myClass.isActive
            PropertyChanges { target: areaContents; x: 0 }
            PropertyChanges { target: areaHeader; opacity: 1.0 }
            PropertyChanges { target: areaFooter; opacity: 1.0 }
        },
        State {
            name: "NOTACTIVE";  when: !myClass.isActive
            PropertyChanges { target: areaContents; x: -width }
            PropertyChanges { target: areaHeader; opacity: 0.0 }
            PropertyChanges { target: areaFooter; opacity: 0.0 }
        }
    ]

    transitions: [
        Transition {
            NumberAnimation { target: areaContents; property: "x"; duration: 500; easing.type: Easing.InOutQuad }
            OpacityAnimator { target: areaHeader; duration: 500 }
            OpacityAnimator { target: areaFooter; duration: 500 }
        }
    ]

But it doens't work as excpected.
Few questions:

do I need to explicitly define values for both states? I mean, in the NOTACTIVE state the properties' values are the same declared into the definition of the object ("default" ones)
is it correct how I animate the properties? I'm not sure because in the *Animators you can also specify the from and to values. When not specified they use the ones provided from the PropertyChanges objects?

raven-worx

@Mark81 said:

is it correct how I animate the properties? I'm not sure because in the *Animators you can also specify the from and to values. When not specified they use the ones provided from the PropertyChanges objects?

you should define at least the "to" properties. The from - if left out - should use the current value.
Of course without a to-value, who should know until which value you want the animation to happen.

Mark81

@raven-worx said:

Of course without a to-value, who should know until which value you want the animation to happen.

I'm not sure to understand this. If I have to specify to to-value in the *Animator objects, what is the purpose of the PropertyChanges?

raven-worx

@Mark81
forget what i said, this wasn't correct. sorry.

In the Transition object you should fill the "from" and "to" porperties with names of the states.
So you need a transition from state to state.