Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Mark Aldham

Anthony R Young

Jeffrey E Stall

Lindsay Ann Kubasik

Nathan P Pollock

Luciano Baretta Mandryk

Peter Auerhann Beissinger

Lucas Haines

In one embodiment, a user interface system may execute an independent expression in a secondary code set to facilitate taking a dynamic object reading for a target composition object. The user interface system may execute a primary code thread and a secondary code thread for a user interface. The primary code thread may generate an independent expression resident in the secondary code thread. The independent expression may gather an input set resident in the secondary code thread for a target composition object. The secondary code thread may render the target composition object based on the input set.

Independent expression animations

Animations are displayed on a user interface (UI) of a computing device using one of multiple different animation system modes, each animation system mode operating in a different manner to determine how to change the display for an animation. The animation can be on a particular object that is displayed by the computing device (e.g., scrolling a list, moving an icon or character from one location to another) and/or can be on the display as a whole (e.g., panning or scrolling a view of the whole display). The multi-mode animation system operates to select an animation system mode on a frame by frame basis. For each frame of content being displayed on the display device, the multi-mode animation system selects an appropriate one of the animation system modes to use for generating the content of that frame.

Multi-mode animation system

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