"Fading" idle controls

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A question came up while we were imagining a new interface for a system that we plan to have in a factory: Would it be possible to “fade” buttons and some other controls out of the way of the main information display, and have those controls fade back in on mouse movement or key-presses?

Does anyone here have any experience doing that with wxPython? Any pointers?

Thanks,

Anthony.

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If you take a look at the code in Anrea’s zoom bar in the demo for
wxPython 2.9.x and possibly earlier then I would say that what you
are suggesting is simply a more extreme version of the same thing -
instead of smaller when the mouse is nowhere near and larger when it
is near you would be looking at insignificant when the mouse is
nowhere near, significant when it is and possibly at other times.

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On 15/01/13 17:12, Anthony Floyd wrote:

    A question came up while we were imagining a new

interface for a system that we plan to have in a factory: Would
it be possible to “fade” buttons and some other controls out of
the way of the main information display, and have those controls
fade back in on mouse movement or key-presses?

      Does anyone here have any experience doing that with

wxPython? Any pointers?

Thanks,

Anthony.

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Hi Steve,

Thanks for the suggestion. Not exactly what I was looking for, but a jumping-off point at least.

Anthony.

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On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Steve Barnes gadgetsteve@live.co.uk wrote:

On 15/01/13 17:12, Anthony Floyd wrote:

    A question came up while we were imagining a new

interface for a system that we plan to have in a factory: Would
it be possible to “fade” buttons and some other controls out of
the way of the main information display, and have those controls
fade back in on mouse movement or key-presses?

      Does anyone here have any experience doing that with

wxPython? Any pointers?

Thanks,

Anthony.

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If you take a look at the code in Anrea's zoom bar in the demo for

wxPython 2.9.x and possibly earlier then I would say that what you
are suggesting is simply a more extreme version of the same thing -
instead of smaller when the mouse is nowhere near and larger when it
is near you would be looking at insignificant when the mouse is
nowhere near, significant when it is and possibly at other times.

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