Hitoshi Okada and ten other Curl developers in Japan have launched an open source project to bring advanced UI effects and transitions to Curl. You can use these for such things as fish-eye toolbars, carousels, cube transitions, image reflections, and much more. There are over 30 effects offered already and we are looking forward to seeing many more. If you want to participate all are welcome! You can access the new Curl Advanced UI effects, and download them for free, by visiting the home page for the Curl Advanced UI open source project at sourceforge.
You can also play around with a demo application that you can access here. The demo instrucitons are in Japanese but Takayuki Yoshida has provided this translation.
And I've created a short video highlighting some of the new effects (with a sneak peak at a cool interoperability feature in Curl) here. There even more video demos here!
Curl will be actively involved in supporting this project and helping to convert the Japanese documentation into English - that said you don't need the documentation if you already know how to program in Curl. The examples can be downloaded and are self-explanatory. Please check out the video I prepared, visit the open source project, download the examples, and use the effects in your applications!
*Remember, Curl has launched a c-2026 and the authors of the top 4 blog entries win an iPhone 3G (or equivalent cash value if not supported in your country). The new open source project provides plenty to blog about!*
Links:
Curl Advanced UI open source project home page
Curl Advanced UI demo application with English Instructions
Curl Advanced UI demo video
more Curl Advanced UI demos
Curl Blogging Contest 2008
I will try to find time to get some of these integrated in a live Curl page over at my site (especially seeing as the UI for framework from Paul Sheehan's book is in need of a facelift ...
Great to see this code come in open-source !