Is it possible to disable the animation feature in GLSP for specific elements?

[rsoika]

In GLSP, when I update a GNode (e.g. changing text labels, or resizing) the element shows an nice animation

Nevertheless, I would like to ask whether it is possible to switched off this feature for specific parts of a GNode of for a GNode in general??

[tortmayr]

HI @rsoika,
selective animation is a bit tricky.
First of all in GLSP/sprotty animations are not directly coupled with a model element. Instead they are tied to specific operation/command.

Each server operation results in an [UpdateModelAction](https://github.com/eclipse-glsp/glsp/blob/master/PROTOCOL.md#243-updatemodelaction. This action has a flag to indicate whether the update should be animated or not. Currently this animation flag is controlled globally via the DiagramConfiguration and the corresponding actions are dispatched by the ModelSubmissionHandler.

I admit that this is not ideal and I have created #938 to track this.
In the meantime you would have to customize the ModelSubmissionHandler OperationActionHandler in your application to achieve selective animation.

[rsoika]

Thanks @tortmayr,

finally I solved the issue for OpenBPMN by overwriting the animatedUpdate() method in my DiagramConfiguration

public class BPMNDiagramConfiguration extends BaseDiagramConfiguration {
......
    @Override
    public boolean animatedUpdate() {
        return false;
    }
....
}