With the successful completion of the explode effect, I decided to build on the code used to split the node into pieces. I split the code in half and thus created a new generic function, dojox.fx._split that returns an animation object that splits the node into args.rows and args.columns and applies args.pieceAnimation() to each piece. This function takes the piece, its x and y location in the grid of pieces, and the dojo.coords of the original node as arguments and returns either an animation object or an array of animation objects to be combined.

Hi dojoers, I am thinking to put my analysis document for GFX 2.0 (this document has been updating from the first time discussion with my mentor Mr.Eugene Lazutkin). You can read the document to know more about abstract design of GFX 2.0... At the moment, I am writing document to explain thoroughly about GFX 2.0 implementation, it will be described about: - Assumption implementation (for example, no color texturing, no light feature, etc) - Implementation detail (including design diagram, improvement made to increase performance) - Problem (algorithm, feature that hard to implement) Link for the analysis document can be read in this link

This week I've made a lot of progress on rails' JavaScriptGenerator. JavaScriptGenerator basically offloads a lot of the work to the underlying prototype js library, and it's meant to be an expressive means of speaking javascript with ruby code. To maintain this flexibility, I've been implementing a lot of prototype functionality in our drails javascript package. There are 2 new classes, drails.Element and drails.ElementCollection, and one new interface, drails.Enumerable.

I created a nice animation effect that splits the element into an arbitrary number of rows and columns, then sends them flying away from the element's center. The user can specify whether or not the pieces fade out as they move, and whether or not the distance and duration of each piece's animation should be randomized. The effect is accomplished by cloning the node once for each piece and combining each piece's animation together. The original node's opacity is set to zero onPlay.