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Mastering Windows Presentation Foundation

You're reading from   Mastering Windows Presentation Foundation Build responsive UIs for desktop applications with WPF

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838643416
Length 626 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Sheridan Yuen Sheridan Yuen
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Preface 1. A Smarter Way of Working with WPF 2. Debugging WPF Applications FREE CHAPTER 3. Writing Custom Application Frameworks 4. Becoming Proficient with Data Binding 5. Using the Right Controls for the Job 6. Adapting the Built-In Controls 7. Mastering Practical Animations 8. Creating Visually Appealing User Interfaces 9. Implementing Responsive Data Validation 10. Completing that Great User Experience 11. Improving Application Performance 12. Deploying Your Masterpiece Application 13. What Next? 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Easing functions

When declaring animations with WPF, we are able to utilize a powerful capability that helps us to define more specialized animations. While we normally provide a start and end value for our animations and let WPF interpolate the intermediate values, there is a way that we can affect this interpolation process.

There are a number of mathematical functions that provide complex animation paths and are known as easing functions. For example, these can accurately replicate the movement of a spring, or the bounce of a ball.

We can simply declare the appropriate easing function within the EasingFunction property of the animation. Each easing function extends the EasingFunctionBase class and has its own specific properties. For example, the BounceEase element provides Bounces and Bounciness properties, while the ElasticEase class declare the Oscillations and Springiness properties.

All easing functions inherit the EasingMode property from the base class. This property is of the...

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