Is there a way to animate the transition of slides in racket slideshow?

Question

I'm trying to animate the transition between slides to make it look less abrupt. As far as I understand the documentation, the slides should be animated using the play procedure. However, I am having difficulties applying it.

My goal was something like this, where one slide fades out and the next one fades in.

#lang slideshow

(require slideshow/play)


(define my-animated-slide
  (animate-slide
   'alts
   (list (list (item "The first slide"))
         (list (item "The second slide"))
         (list (item "The third slide")))))

(play-n my-animated-slide)

Is it even possible to animate the transition at all?

Answer 1

I've not tried it but I found https://github.com/LeifAndersen/slideshow-pretty on GitHub.

From the readme:

slideshow-pretty

This library adds functionality to make pretty transitions in the racket slideshow framework. This library is still under heavy development, and will likely break backwards compatibility.

How to install

git clone git://github.com/LeifAndersen/slideshow-pretty.git 
cd slideshow 
raco link . 
raco setup slideshow-pretty For users

Inside of a slideshow, use (require slideshow/pretty) for the transition functions.