Question

I’m starting to port over my web app that I’ve built with Sencha Touch into the Windows 8 world. I’m seeing a lot of WinJS.UI documentation, basically telling me that there are more ‘native’ feeling animations and UI actions already build into this framework.

My app is already structured, but I’d like to mix in WinJS.UI if I can. How do I go about doing this? I haven’t found a link to download the library or anything of the sort.

For example, this link:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsappdev/archive/2012/05/01/fast-and-fluid-animations-in-your-metro-style-app.aspx

I see that they are using:

<script>       
   function runAnimation(){
      enterPage = WinJS.UI.Animation.enterPage(input);
   }
</script>

But I find no documentation on where to include the library.

Little bit lost, any help is appreciated!

Answer 1

These animations are included in the UI.Js from the WinJS Package — this is the same WinJS that is included in the default Visual Studio Templates. Just create a new HTML Windows Store application, and the details will be there.