Also, effects could sorted into 3 main categories: showing, hiding, getting attention. So, for example, fade in would be a showing effect, and fade out would be a hiding effect, and pulsate would be a getting attention effect. It would be nice if applications could simply ask for a hiding effect, and be given some default one to use. Maybe this could be tied in with the theme, so that each category would have a default in the theme.

Refactord as per requirement.

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ValueExpression issue resolved by adding BehaviorHandler

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Property map added to the effect component base class, which would allow to set properties on effects generically. (e.g.)

effect.getProperties().put("color": "red");

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Following changes made:

• So initial properties can be set using Effect's style classes, and which can be overridden by component using property map on the effect component. Another layer added so each component can define its own css rule by using styleClass and child effect component will respect parent component's style class.

• Rule added so the Effect style classes will be use for providing initial values only, and effect style classes will not be a part of a decode instead on effect complete the latest style of the element will be serialized on hidden filed by the effect API, and on submit decode of Effect component will store it to its style property of effect. Which later can be used by the component or renderers.

• There could be two type of events passthrough javascript event (onXXXX) or custom events. Both event requires different type of javascript call, on javascript XXX event we would like to send and effect with run() command, so the JSF renderer would automatically execute the effect, and for custom component, we just need to send an instance of an effect so the custom component can plugin its behavior before making a run() call. So that there are two getScript() methods available, the default one returns "new effect().run()" and second one is usful for custom event types for example "transition" which returns "new effect()" only.

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The reverting of an effect allows to reverse the effect using a single call, which mean for example both Fade and Appear will be executed in a row. but there can be some cases where an effect will completely executed and later it might want to call its reverse effect. For example when popup closes the Fade can be used and on show we might want to use Appear effect. But we don't want to pass two effects to the component. So we are just going to pass Fade which will be executed on hide, and on show we can simply say effect.peer.run();

So in this commit peer support added, so the reverse of the effect can be called on demand.

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Effect support added to the dateTimeSelector componet, as well as some code re-factoring has been done.

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IE fix.

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effect demos added.

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For reference, here's a reference of the decisions we have taken:

1. Need to rename the new component as soon as possible as the current name collides with the 1.8 ice:effect component. We had agreed that <ice:animation> was a good name, so please proceed with this change. Also note the namespace should be "http://www.icefaces.org/icefaces/components".

2. Proceed with adding the following attributes on the animation tag (no JSON required!):

• to
• from
• duration
• easing
• reverse

3. Using two or more <ice:animation> tags in a row for implied chaining seems like a good solution. We can then later possibly add another tag ("<ice:group>" ??) that could be used to synchronize chained animations to run simultaneously, etc.
For now, we will not bother with a direct object reference attribute (effectObj, etc.) since this would break POJO and we are also not certain of it's usefulness since the multiple attribute approach + CSS provides a lot of flexibility on its own.

4. Support for h: comps. We will support any std. or 3rd party component that supports client behaviors, and will not do anything beyond that to support 3rd party comps. with the new <ice:animation> component. The h:panelGroup supports client behaviors so folks can wrap any other comps. with it if they want to apply animations to it.

Following attributes and their support has been added.

• to
  -from
  -easing
  -iterations

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Duration attribute and its support added.

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Demos:

http://screencast.com/t/MDFiNmM3MG