lfx.slideIn/slideOut -- misleading names

[tk]

Poorly named? I was looking at creating some test pages for a friend to help demonstrate equivilent coding from prototype->dojo and come to find that slideIn/Out now are wipes...

Slide implies that the item moves... much like the old slideTo() function moved an element from current position to point A... but with slideOut/In the element dissappeared as it slid away (ie, it was sliding under another element or something)

Are there plans of reimplementing these or atleast clarifying the slideX names in use now?

assigning to peller since I see his checkin renamed the functions, I just couldnt find anything on why the rename happened.

[peller]

Bryan, Alex, can you comment?

[bill]

There are two similar animations that go from a hidden state to a displayed state as the element changes height.

One uncovers the text from top to bottom like pulling a sheet off of a painting. The painting doesn't move but it's slowly unhidden. You see the top of the painting first and the bottom is shown last.

The other is like having the painting on a roll-up window shade, and pulling down the shade. The painting is actually moving. You see the bottom of the painting first and then it slides down.

I think we implemented the first one which is called wipe-in but called it slide-in? That's my understanding anyway... so I agree the names should change (but don't have a strong opinion)

[tk]

Bill,

You are right... there used to be WipeIn/Out? and SlideIn/Out?... 1 set was lost and then we renamed the Wipes to Slide for some reason...

I would say the original names were very good IMO. (WipeIn/Out? and SlideIn/Out? (as seperate animations of course, how you described 1 handles each case))

[peller]

(In [9999]) Rename slideIn/slideOut to wipeIn/wipeOut. Fixes #3917

[peller]

(In [10000]) Rename slideIn/slideOut to wipeIn/wipeOut. Refs #3917