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Lucian
Lucian

Reputation: 894

Animation does't work as expected for Widget object in Kivy

I am using Kivy 1.9.0 with Python 2.7 on Win7 64.
I am trying to animate a Widget to move from current position to a specific one. After adding the Widget element to the screen I start the animation but nothing happens, I was expecting the Widget to move according to the Animation position. Here is the code:

projectile = Widget(pos=(self._posX + self._projectile_x, self._posY + self._projectile_y))
with projectile.canvas:
    Ellipse(pos=projectile.pos, size=(10,10))

self.add_widget(projectile)

anim = Animation(x=100, y=100)
anim.start(projectile)

The small Ellipse widget does not move, it just appears on the specified coordinates.If I replace the Widget object with for eg. a Button object the animation works correctly.
Do you have any idea why this happens?
Thanks

Upvotes: 4

Views: 905

Answers (2)

Lucian
Lucian

Reputation: 894

So, from what I can understand, when creating a Widget object dinamically(codewise), Kivy doesn't do the same bindings as it does for Button or other Widget more complex types. So, a solution can be:
1: as Yoas said to create the objects in kv language. This comes with the drawback that somehow it forces you to do the rest in kv to be consistent. The plus of having them in kv is that kivy binds all properties for you. OR
2: do the bindings for the properties yourself. The drawback is that you must do blindly the bindings because you never know what are those properties that are used in different situations.

In my particular case I assumed that only pos property is changed because I used an Animation object that only changes the position of the Widget. To do the binding I created a class for the Widget so I can manage it more clearly.
AFTER:

class Projectile(Widget):

def __init__(self, pos, size):
    super(Projectile, self).__init__(pos=pos, size=size)
    with self.canvas:
        self.ellipse = Ellipse(pos=pos, size=size)

    self.bind(pos = self.updatePosition)

def updatePosition(self, *args):
    self.ellipse.pos = self.pos

And then I used Projectile object instead of my default Widget:

proj = Projectile(pos=(self._posX + self._projectile_x, self._posY + self._projectile_y), size = (10, 10))

self.add_widget(proj)

animation = Animation(pos=(100, 100))
animation.start(proj)

This works fine now, thx Yoav for the hint

Upvotes: 2

Yoav Glazner
Yoav Glazner

Reputation: 8041

When you do it in python the Ellipse.pos is not binded to the projectile.pos

If you would do the same in kv lang it will work fine

Upvotes: 1

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