Special effects

[ghost]

It is just an idea, but can we imagine that a day we add a "special effects" library (like in WPF) ?

A simple example:

1. Create a glow over a button : http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WPF/MarsaX/searchArea.png

2. Do a small animation, when hovering the button, the glow appear slowing (trough transparency animation). When leaging the button is disappear. Something based on a simple timer by example !

[ocornut]

Sorry, it isn't a priority for ImGui to develop toward fancy visuals let alone animation. While it is fairly easy if you fork to add some of those, that sort of change would put extra burden on both library developers and library users.

Although we will aim to improve visuals (as per #184) and some of the work on that might lead to similar features they will be at the service of a main visual design rather than aiming to be fully controllable by the user.

TL;DR; if glowing makes sense in the context of the future default design I will add it otherwise not considering arbitrary visual features.