TUTORIAL 26
Now Your Friends Seem
Animated
Most of the time, we are reading status updates, not updating our own
status. Hence, having the status entry widgets always around takes up a lot
of screen space. It would be nice to have them appear or disappear at the
user's request.
This tutorial will cover that very process. We will give the user an option
menu choice to show or hide the status entry widgets. Initially, we will
simply hide and show the widgets without any animation. Then, we will use
an AlphaAnimation to have the widgets fade in or out.
Step-By-Step Instructions........................................................................
First, you need to have completed the previous tutorial. If you are
beginning the tutorials here, or if you wish to not use your existing work,
you can download a ZIP file with all of the tutorial results, and you can copy
the 25-AdvWebKit edition of Patchy to use as a starting point.
Step #1: Set Up the Option Menu
Let us start by giving the user the option to show and hide the status entry
row. That can be handled by just another entry in our option