org.formaria.swing.animation
Class AnimationThread

java.lang.Object
  java.lang.Thread
      org.formaria.swing.animation.AnimationThread

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.lang.Runnable

public class AnimationThread
extends java.lang.Thread

A thread to control the animation of one or more animation objects.

Copyright (c) Formaria Ltd., 2008, This software is licensed under the GNU Public License (GPL), please see license.txt for more details. If you make commercial use of this software you must purchase a commercial license from Formaria.

$Revision: 1.16 $

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class java.lang.Thread

java.lang.Thread.State, java.lang.Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler

Field Summary

protected java.util.Vector	animationObjects The objects controller by this thread
protected Animation	animationThread A self reference
protected AnimationObject	currentAnimationObject
protected boolean	isLoop Flag indication if the animation runs as a continuous loop
protected long	loopTime The length of the animation loop in milliseconds
protected long	numLoops The number of times to play the animation
protected long	numSteps The number of steps in a single animation loop, by default Long.MAX_VALUE steps per cycle
protected long	sleepTime The sleep time in milliseconds
protected long	startTime The start time
protected long	tickCount The current tick count

Fields inherited from class java.lang.Thread

MAX_PRIORITY, MIN_PRIORITY, NORM_PRIORITY

Constructor Summary

AnimationThread()
Creates a new instance of AnimationThread

Method Summary

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Thread

activeCount, checkAccess, countStackFrames, currentThread, destroy, dumpStack, enumerate, getAllStackTraces, getContextClassLoader, getDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler, getId, getName, getPriority, getStackTrace, getState, getThreadGroup, getUncaughtExceptionHandler, holdsLock, interrupt, interrupted, isAlive, isDaemon, isInterrupted, join, join, join, resume, run, setContextClassLoader, setDaemon, setDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler, setName, setPriority, setUncaughtExceptionHandler, sleep, sleep, start, stop, stop, suspend, toString, yield

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

animationObjects

protected java.util.Vector animationObjects

The objects controller by this thread

animationThread

protected Animation animationThread

A self reference

sleepTime

protected long sleepTime

The sleep time in milliseconds

startTime

protected long startTime

The start time

tickCount

protected long tickCount

The current tick count

isLoop

protected boolean isLoop

Flag indication if the animation runs as a continuous loop

numLoops

protected long numLoops

The number of times to play the animation

numSteps

protected long numSteps

The number of steps in a single animation loop, by default Long.MAX_VALUE steps per cycle

loopTime

protected long loopTime

The length of the animation loop in milliseconds

currentAnimationObject

protected AnimationObject currentAnimationObject

Constructor Detail

AnimationThread

public AnimationThread()

Creates a new instance of AnimationThread