Advanced Qt Programming: Creating Great Software with C++ and Qt 4

13. The Animation and State Machine Frameworks

• Introducing the Animation Framework

• Introducing the State Machine Framework

• Combining Animations and State Machines

Qt 4.6 introduced many new features, including two major frameworks: the animation framework (part of the “Kinetic” project), and the state machine framework. In this chapter we will briefly introduce both of these frameworks.^* Doing animations in Qt has always been possible using timers, and this was made a great deal easier when Qt 4.2 introduced the QTimeLine class. (We very briefly mentioned this class in an earlier chapter; 133 .) The new animation framework in Qt 4.6 ...