PropertyAnimation QML Type

Animates changes in property values. More...

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Properties

• duration : int
• easing
  • easing.amplitude : real
  • easing.bezierCurve : list<real>
  • easing.overshoot : real
  • easing.period : real
  • easing.type : enumeration
• exclude : list<Object>
• from : variant
• properties : string
• property : string
• target : Object
• targets : list<Object>
• to : variant

Detailed Description

PropertyAnimation provides a way to animate changes to a property's value.

It can be used to define animations in a number of ways:

• In a Transition

  For example, to animate any objects that have changed their x or y properties as a result of a state change, using an InOutQuad easing curve:

  Rectangle {
      id: rect
      width: 100; height: 100
      color: "red"
  
      states: State {
          name: "moved"
          PropertyChanges { target: rect; x: 50 }
      }
  
      transitions: Transition {
          PropertyAnimation { properties: "x,y"; easing.type: Easing.InOutQuad }
      }
  }

• In a Behavior

  For example, to animate all changes to a rectangle's x property:

  Rectangle {
      width: 100; height: 100
      color: "red"
  
      Behavior on x { PropertyAnimation {} }
  
      MouseArea { anchors.fill: parent; onClicked: parent.x = 50 }
  }

• As a property value source

  For example, to repeatedly animate the rectangle's x property:

  Rectangle {
      width: 100; height: 100
      color: "red"
  
      SequentialAnimation on x {
          loops: Animation.Infinite
          PropertyAnimation { to: 50 }
          PropertyAnimation { to: 0 }
      }
  }

• In a signal handler

  For example, to fade out theObject when clicked:

  MouseArea {
      anchors.fill: theObject
      onClicked: PropertyAnimation { target: theObject; property: "opacity"; to: 0 }
  }

• Standalone

  For example, to animate rect's width property over 500ms, from its current width to 30:

  Rectangle {
      id: theRect
      width: 100; height: 100
      color: "red"
  
      // this is a standalone animation, it's not running by default
      PropertyAnimation { id: animation;
                          target: theRect;
                          property: "width";
                          to: 30;
                          duration: 500 }
  
      MouseArea { anchors.fill: parent; onClicked: animation.running = true }
  }

Depending on how the animation is used, the set of properties normally used will be different. For more information see the individual property documentation, as well as the Animation and Transitions in Qt Quick introduction.

Note that PropertyAnimation inherits the abstract Animation type. This includes additional properties and methods for controlling the animation.

See also Animation and Transitions in Qt Quick and Qt Quick Examples - Animation.

Property Documentation

These properties are used as a set to determine which properties should be animated. The singular and plural forms are functionally identical, e.g.

NumberAnimation { target: theItem; property: "x"; to: 500 }

has the same meaning as

NumberAnimation { targets: theItem; properties: "x"; to: 500 }

The singular forms are slightly optimized, so if you do have only a single target/property to animate you should try to use them.

The targets property allows multiple targets to be set. For example, this animates the x property of both itemA and itemB:

NumberAnimation { targets: [itemA, itemB]; properties: "x"; to: 500 }

In many cases these properties do not need to be explicitly specified, as they can be inferred from the animation framework:

Rectangle {
    id: theRect
    width: 100; height: 100
    color: Qt.rgba(0,0,1)
    NumberAnimation on x { to: 500; loops: Animation.Infinite } //animate theRect's x property
    Behavior on y { NumberAnimation {} } //animate theRect's y property
}

Rectangle {
    id: theRect
    width: 100; height: 100
    color: Qt.rgba(0,0,1)
    Item { id: uselessItem }
    states: State {
        name: "state1"
        PropertyChanges { target: theRect; x: 200; y: 200; z: 4 }
        PropertyChanges { target: uselessItem; x: 10; y: 10; z: 2 }
    }
    transitions: Transition {
        //animate both theRect's and uselessItem's x and y to their final values
        NumberAnimation { properties: "x,y" }

        //animate theRect's z to its final value
        NumberAnimation { target: theRect; property: "z" }
    }
}

Rectangle {
    id: theRect
    width: 100; height: 100
    color: Qt.rgba(0,0,1)
    //need to explicitly specify target and property
    NumberAnimation { id: theAnim; target: theRect; property: "x"; to: 500 }
    MouseArea {
        anchors.fill: parent
        onClicked: theAnim.start()
    }
}

As seen in the above example, properties is specified as a comma-separated string of property names to animate.

See also exclude and Animation and Transitions in Qt Quick.

duration : int

This property holds the duration of the animation, in milliseconds.

The default value is 250.

easing.amplitude : real

Specifies the easing curve used for the animation

To specify an easing curve you need to specify at least the type. For some curves you can also specify amplitude, period and/or overshoot (more details provided after the table). The default easing curve is Easing.Linear.

PropertyAnimation { properties: "y";
                    easing.type: Easing.InOutElastic;
                    easing.amplitude: 2.0;
                    easing.period: 1.5 }

Available types are:

Easing.Linear	Easing curve for a linear (t) function: velocity is constant.
Easing.InQuad	Easing curve for a quadratic (t^2) function: accelerating from zero velocity.
Easing.OutQuad	Easing curve for a quadratic (t^2) function: decelerating to zero velocity.
Easing.InOutQuad	Easing curve for a quadratic (t^2) function: acceleration until halfway, then deceleration.
Easing.OutInQuad	Easing curve for a quadratic (t^2) function: deceleration until halfway, then acceleration.
Easing.InCubic	Easing curve for a cubic (t^3) function: accelerating from zero velocity.
Easing.OutCubic	Easing curve for a cubic (t^3) function: decelerating to zero velocity.
Easing.InOutCubic	Easing curve for a cubic (t^3) function: acceleration until halfway, then deceleration.
Easing.OutInCubic	Easing curve for a cubic (t^3) function: deceleration until halfway, then acceleration.
Easing.InQuart	Easing curve for a quartic (t^4) function: accelerating from zero velocity.
Easing.OutQuart	Easing curve for a quartic (t^4) function: decelerating to zero velocity.
Easing.InOutQuart	Easing curve for a quartic (t^4) function: acceleration until halfway, then deceleration.
Easing.OutInQuart	Easing curve for a quartic (t^4) function: deceleration until halfway, then acceleration.
Easing.InQuint	Easing curve for a quintic (t^5) function: accelerating from zero velocity.
Easing.OutQuint	Easing curve for a quintic (t^5) function: decelerating to zero velocity.
Easing.InOutQuint	Easing curve for a quintic (t^5) function: acceleration until halfway, then deceleration.
Easing.OutInQuint	Easing curve for a quintic (t^5) function: deceleration until halfway, then acceleration.
Easing.InSine	Easing curve for a sinusoidal (sin(t)) function: accelerating from zero velocity.
Easing.OutSine	Easing curve for a sinusoidal (sin(t)) function: decelerating to zero velocity.
Easing.InOutSine	Easing curve for a sinusoidal (sin(t)) function: acceleration until halfway, then deceleration.
Easing.OutInSine	Easing curve for a sinusoidal (sin(t)) function: deceleration until halfway, then acceleration.
Easing.InExpo	Easing curve for an exponential (2^t) function: accelerating from zero velocity.
Easing.OutExpo	Easing curve for an exponential (2^t) function: decelerating to zero velocity.
Easing.InOutExpo	Easing curve for an exponential (2^t) function: acceleration until halfway, then deceleration.
Easing.OutInExpo	Easing curve for an exponential (2^t) function: deceleration until halfway, then acceleration.
Easing.InCirc	Easing curve for a circular (sqrt(1-t^2)) function: accelerating from zero velocity.
Easing.OutCirc	Easing curve for a circular (sqrt(1-t^2)) function: decelerating to zero velocity.
Easing.InOutCirc	Easing curve for a circular (sqrt(1-t^2)) function: acceleration until halfway, then deceleration.
Easing.OutInCirc	Easing curve for a circular (sqrt(1-t^2)) function: deceleration until halfway, then acceleration.
Easing.InElastic	Easing curve for an elastic (exponentially decaying sine wave) function: accelerating from zero velocity. The peak amplitude can be set with the amplitude parameter, and the period of decay by the period parameter.
Easing.OutElastic	Easing curve for an elastic (exponentially decaying sine wave) function: decelerating to zero velocity. The peak amplitude can be set with the amplitude parameter, and the period of decay by the period parameter.
Easing.InOutElastic	Easing curve for an elastic (exponentially decaying sine wave) function: acceleration until halfway, then deceleration.
Easing.OutInElastic	Easing curve for an elastic (exponentially decaying sine wave) function: deceleration until halfway, then acceleration.
Easing.InBack	Easing curve for a back (overshooting cubic function: (s+1)*t^3 - s*t^2) easing in: accelerating from zero velocity.
Easing.OutBack	Easing curve for a back (overshooting cubic function: (s+1)*t^3 - s*t^2) easing out: decelerating to zero velocity.
Easing.InOutBack	Easing curve for a back (overshooting cubic function: (s+1)*t^3 - s*t^2) easing in/out: acceleration until halfway, then deceleration.
Easing.OutInBack	Easing curve for a back (overshooting cubic easing: (s+1)*t^3 - s*t^2) easing out/in: deceleration until halfway, then acceleration.
Easing.InBounce	Easing curve for a bounce (exponentially decaying parabolic bounce) function: accelerating from zero velocity.
Easing.OutBounce	Easing curve for a bounce (exponentially decaying parabolic bounce) function: decelerating to zero velocity.
Easing.InOutBounce	Easing curve for a bounce (exponentially decaying parabolic bounce) function easing in/out: acceleration until halfway, then deceleration.
Easing.OutInBounce	Easing curve for a bounce (exponentially decaying parabolic bounce) function easing out/in: deceleration until halfway, then acceleration.
Easing.Bezier	Custom easing curve defined by the easing.bezierCurve property.

easing.amplitude is only applicable for bounce and elastic curves (curves of type Easing.InBounce, Easing.OutBounce, Easing.InOutBounce, Easing.OutInBounce, Easing.InElastic, Easing.OutElastic, Easing.InOutElastic or Easing.OutInElastic).

easing.overshoot is only applicable if easing.type is: Easing.InBack, Easing.OutBack, Easing.InOutBack or Easing.OutInBack.

easing.period is only applicable if easing.type is: Easing.InElastic, Easing.OutElastic, Easing.InOutElastic or Easing.OutInElastic.

easing.bezierCurve is only applicable if easing.type is: Easing.Bezier. This property is a list<real> containing groups of three points defining a curve from 0,0 to 1,1 - control1, control2, end point: [cx1, cy1, cx2, cy2, endx, endy, ...]. The last point must be 1,1.

See the Easing Curves for a demonstration of the different easing settings.

exclude : list<Object>

This property holds the items not to be affected by this animation.

See also PropertyAnimation::targets.

from : variant

This property holds the starting value for the animation.

If the PropertyAnimation is defined within a Transition or Behavior, this value defaults to the value defined in the starting state of the Transition, or the current value of the property at the moment the Behavior is triggered.

See also Animation and Transitions in Qt Quick.

to : variant

This property holds the end value for the animation.

If the PropertyAnimation is defined within a Transition or Behavior, this value defaults to the value defined in the end state of the Transition, or the value of the property change that triggered the Behavior.

See also Animation and Transitions in Qt Quick.