[Closed] Extend ColorAnimationExtensions with 'TextColorTo' for ITextStyle

[PieEatingNinjas]

Currently the ColorAnimationExtensions class has 1 method BackgroundColorTo which helps animating the color transition of a VisualElement's BackgroundColor.

The ITextStyle interface - which is implemented by things like ILabel, IButton, IEntry, ... - defines a TextColor property of type Color. I can imagine devs might want to animate the transition of the text color of controls that implement this interface.

That's why I want to propose adding a TextColorTo extension method for the ITextStyle interface:

Task TextColorTo(this ITextStyle, Color color, uint rate = 16, uint duration = 250, Easing? easing = null);

This would allow us to use it for any UI control that implements ITextStyle, like ILabel, IButton, IEntry, etc.

var label = new Label();
await label.TextColorTo(Colors.Red, 16, 1500, Easing.SinIn);

var button = new TextButton();
await button.TextColorTo(Colors.Green, 16, 1500);

var entry = new Entry();
await entry.TextColorTo(Colors.Pink);

Let's discuss! 🙂

[brminnick]

Love it!

Let's see if we get any more feedback from the community on this in the next few days, then open a New Feature Proposal!

[PieEatingNinjas]

What do you think? Should I create a New Feature Proposal?

[bijington]

What do you think? Should I create a New Feature Proposal?

I vote yes

[brminnick]

Agreed!

[PieEatingNinjas]

Will create proposal later today or tomorrow! 🙂

[bijington]

I really like this!

To overcomplicate the situation is there any sense in considering whether we could combine animations together?

I get that we could probably call something like the following:

var label = new Label();
await Task.WhenAll(
    label.TextColorTo(Colors.Red, 16, 1500, Easing.SinIn),
    label.BackgroundColorTo(Colors.Orange, 16, 1000, Easing.SpringIn));

This may well be enough or a user could write their own for more complex scenarios. Or we further expand the compound animations coming soon. This concept is starting to get me thinking about whether this could expose a new way of doing things for the compound animation proposal too.

[brminnick]

Oooh - yea, this sounds like a good one to look into once we've added CompoundAnimations!

Since you're the Proposal Champion for CompoundAnimations, I'll defer that decision to you Shaun. I'd say for now it'd be good idea to add a comment to the CompoundAnimations Proposal so that we don't forget!

[bijington]

Good call! I will add a comment there now!

[brminnick]

Promoted to Proposal 🎉

Adding [Closed] to title.

[CliffAgius]

Closed as moved to Proposal #211