Flash effect in Toggle Buttons

Question

Hi all:
I try to make an animated effect as in the ToggleButtons event "onMouseEntered"
My idea is that the shadow of the buttons make a blink effect. While the pointer is over the button, I want the shadow becomes large and then small, then big and then small ...
I tried doing some testing with this code:
@FXML private Label label;
    @FXML private ToggleButton boton1;
    @FXML private ToggleButton boton2;
FadeTransition ft = new FadeTransition(Duration.millis(3000), boton1);
DropShadow ds = new DropShadow();
Timeline timeLine;
public void shadowTButtons(MouseEvent evt){
    ds.setColor(Color.web("#13EC0C"));
    ds.setRadius(0.1);
    ds.setSpread(0.6f);
    ds.setOffsetX(0.0f);
    ds.setOffsetY(0.0f);
    timeLine= new Timeline();
    timeLine.setCycleCount(Timeline.INDEFINITE);
    timeLine.setAutoReverse(true);
    KeyValue keyvalue1 =  new KeyValue(ds.radiusProperty(), 2, Interpolator.EASE_OUT);
    ds.setRadius(20.0);
    KeyValue keyvalue2 =  new KeyValue(ds.radiusProperty(), 2, Interpolator.EASE_OUT);
    Duration duration = Duration.millis(10000);
    KeyFrame keyframe1 = new KeyFrame(Duration.seconds(0), keyvalue1);
    KeyFrame keyframe2 = new KeyFrame(duration, keyvalue2);
     timeLine.getKeyFrames().add(keyframe1);
     timeLine.getKeyFrames().add(keyframe2);
     timeLine.play();
     boton2.setEffect(ds);
}I'm not saying that the code is consistent. Just say I tried.
The program "runs" but does absolutely nothing.
I would appreciate any help. It's my first foray into animation programming and I'm still pretty new to JavaFX.
Sorry if English is not very good.
blessings
Edited by: biochemistry43 on 17/12/2012 01:40 PM

Answer 1

It looks like the end values for both your KeyValues are equal to 2; I think this means the animation would actually change anything. Try setting the first to 20:
KeyValue keyvalue1 =  new KeyValue(ds.radiusProperty(), 20, Interpolator.EASE_OUT);I assume you are setting the drop shadow on the appropriate toggle button somewhere? Something like boton1.setEffect(ds)...?