Users love animations. See the iphone for a good example 🙂 Everything a user does in the iphone kicks off an animation.
Enter MVVM and Commanding (I’m thinking about Silverlight 2 specifically). A user action triggers an event via Commanding, and we’re sitting in the ViewModel thinking about how to trigger a nice animation for the user…
There are some possibilities, but I don’t find any of them particularly tasteful.
- A bit of MVP. Have the View implement an interface and then have the VM call a method on the view to start an animation.
- In Silverlight 3 Actions/Behaviors might be a kind of answer, but I’m trying to figure out the best approach for SL 2.
- Do hokey animations from the VM where you update (via a timer) binding properties to make things happen… Pretty awkward.
Has anyone had good success with an approach?
Typically I use events to fire the animations from the viewmodel in Silverlight 2