java prob

[Joey_Brown]

Hello;

Is there a way in java to create a flip card effect. I have two pictures, that are to form a double sided card. Ive come with a way to snapshot them in different angles and finally iterate through them in a loop. Its not very good :) Is there another way?

Basically I need to merge these two pictures together and when a user clicks on them the card flips and displays its back side.

Some examples or links maybe where I could get some further info?

Thank you very much

Joey

[hfx642]

Sounds like you've got the method right...
You just have to refine the implementation.
Good luck!

[JamesCherrill]

I'd be very interested to hear how you did the "snapshot", but yes, there's no way around displaying the incremental stages of the "flipping" graphics in a loop. (But not a loop as such - that's going to mess up Swing's event thread - use a javax.swing.Timer to control the update/repaints).

If you don't need to compute the views on the fly you could maybe use an animated GIF created in Photoshop or whatever to simplify your Java code.

[hiddepolen]

My idea: make a jPanel for each card, and use an Affine Transform object to:

- Reduce the width of the panel to 0
- Paint the other image
- Enlarge the width of the panel to the previous width

Like James said, you'll need to some some timing.