Animate-Classic - the AfterStep Classic Animate module

Animate-Classic is spawned by asclassic, so no command line invocation will work. From within the .steprc file, Animate-Classic is spawned as follows:

Module Animate

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	Title "Modules"
	Module "Wharf" Wharf
	Module "NoClutter" Clean
	Module "Identify" Ident
	Module "Banner" Banner
	Module "Debug" Debug
	Module "SaveDesktop" Save
	Module "Pager" Pager 0 3
	Module "Animate" Animate
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The Animate-Classic module animates window actions. It currently animates iconification and deiconification in a zoom style or a twisty spinning style.

During initialization, Animate-Classic will eventually search a configuration file which describes the time-outs and actions to take. The configuration file is the same file that asclassic used during initialization.

The invocation method was shown in the synopsis section

Animate-Classic reads the same .steprc file as asclassic reads when it starts up, and looks for certain configuration options:

*AnimateColor color

Tells Animate what color to draw with.

*AnimateDelay msecs

Tells Animate how many milliseconds to sleep between frames of animation.

*AnimateIterations iterations

Tells Animate how many steps to break the animation into.

*AnimateTwist twist

Tells Animate how many revolutions to twist the iconification frame.

*AnimateWidth width

Tells Animate how wide a line to draw with. Note that with 0 is a fast line at Width 1

*AnimateResize mode

Tells Animate what method to use to draw resizes. zoom and twist are currently supported.

Alfredo Kengi Kojima <kojima@inf.ufrgs.br>

These people have contributed to Animate:

Kaj Groner <kajg@mindspring.com>

Twisty iconification, configuration file parsing, man page.