[material/menu_anchor.dart] Add animations to MenuAnchor. #176494
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Looks good and seems consistent with https://m3.material.io/components/menus/guidelines#691d98ba-0375-4681-8c47-a5c3e7b58798. Only suggestion I would have is to not have a scrollbar appear temporarily during the animation, if there's not going to be one in the completed animated state. |
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@guidezpl I was thinking the same thing. Fix is pushed. |
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Overall looks good to me! Thanks for adding this feature:)
| const Duration _kMenuClosingDuration = Duration(milliseconds: 150); | ||
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| // The default curve used to animate the height of the menu panel when opening. | ||
| const Curve _kMenuPanelHeightForwardCurve = Cubic(.3, 0, 0, 1); |
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Hmm, so I pushed the change, but the animation now looks noticeably worse:
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It's more noticeable on screen with a higher refresh rate, but the opacity animation of the items doesn't line up with the motion of the menu:
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I imagine this may be because the Material spec was made with the Android implementation in mind, which doesn't use a cubic bezier for md.sys.motion.easing.emphasized.
All of that to say, how would the material team feel if we went with the curve from the web implementation? Or, I could try implementing the path-curve Android is using (FYI - I have no idea how much of a rabbit hole this could be).
That said, feel free to override my opinion here!
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I see. I think if the original change fits more, then I agree we should keep it.
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Reverted! Also, added a comment explaining that we chose to stick with the web curve because it was more consistent with the fade in effect of the menu items.
| // fraction of the opening duration. | ||
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| // 50 ms of the 150 ms animation | ||
| const double _kMenuItemRelativeFadeOutDelay = 1 / 3; |
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Seems there is some inconsistency between the variable name and the doc. The doc mentioned this is for fade-in delay.
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I'm not sure whether we can share the internal specs here but I checked the specs, everything here is pretty accurate (except this one and _kMenuPanelHeightForwardCurve)!
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Oh good catch! Docs should be fixed. I also removed some extraneous docs (e.g. spec being obtained from typescript version).
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| this.useRootOverlay = false, | ||
| this.animated = false, | ||
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Also curious the use case for this callback.
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Good question. We actually had this discussion during the RawMenuAnchor animation implementation. If you don't have access to the animation status, you can't open a menu while that menu is in the process of closing (i.e. during AnimationStatus.reverse)
Since MenuController.isOpen represents whether the overlay is visible, MenuController.isOpen is true while the menu is opening, open, and closing (AnimationStatus.forward, .completed, and .reverse, respectively). That means that, if you press the anchor button while the menu is closing, MenuController.isOpen will be true, so the button will call MenuController.close() despite the menu already closing. If you want to make a toggleable menu, you need to have access to the AnimationStatus so that you can test if AnimationStatus.reverse is true.
I didn't use an onAnimationStatusChanged listener on the example because I didn't want users to think that migration to an animated menu requires extra steps. But, do you think it'd be helpful to add it to the example? I did so on the CupertinoMenuAnchor implementation to allow toggleability: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/pull/174695/files#diff-330ffad0cc9875f50a0466e01e8a25e1612e30d5331ff40a6834c30ae7da7b3eR98-R104.
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I see! Thanks a lot for your explanation! I think it would be great to create a separate PR to add the example or add a code sample in the API docs so developers can better understand how this property works!
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I added a snippet on the onAnimationStatusChanged prop and demonstrated how to use animation status on menu_anchor.0.dart. Good catch!
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Can we also update the demo in the PR description to show the correct Scrollbar behavior:)? |
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@QuncCccccc Video should be updated! |
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LGTM. Thanks a lot for implementing this feature!
| /// Whether the menu should open and close with an animation. | ||
| /// | ||
| /// Defaults to false. | ||
| final bool animated; |
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Do we need to add onAnimationStatusChanged to SubmenuButton since it can also be treated like a "anchor"? But it's fine to add it when we need it in the future😄
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Done and added tests
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Okay, everything should be updated. Added:
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Everything should be good-to-go, but I wanted one last check since I changed a few lines. Lmk and I'll merge! |
SubmenuButtonThis was done because I needed to access the dry layout of the menu panel for the best effect. I'll demonstrate below.Turns out using dry layout significantly limits what children you can use with a widget. As a result, I'm calculating the final height using the inverse height factor.Fixes #135025
I don't have access to the internal Google documentation, so I did my best to deduce the spec from https://github.com/material-components/material-web/blob/main/menu/internal/menu.ts.
This change is currently opt-in via an
animatedparameter onMenuAnchorandSubmenuButton. As a result, this is not a breaking change. Because the PR is already quite large, I chose to not add animation customization to this PR. I also didn't change any theming files orDropdownMenu.The only other API addition is a
hoverOpenDelayparameter onSubmenuButton. This parameter delays the start of a submenu opening by the specified duration. It is independent of theanimatedparameter.When
animated == false, the menu runs its forward and reverse animations with a duration of 0. I originally disposed of all animation assets whenanimatedwas false, but found that the code/testing complexity to be unwieldy.Blocked by #176503Examples
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Thanks to @QuncCccccc and @dkwingsmt for their work on this issue. Sorry for throwing a wrench into the original PR by introducing
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