Following the instructions in this documentation about Animations and Transitions, it is noted that animation done on the Form level requires taking the contentpane as the actual Container. So instead of
form.animateLayout(1000);
one has to do
form.getContentPane().animateLayout(1000);
While the documentation points out this exception, wouldnt it be easier and more user-friendly to update the animateLayout() function to check whether the intended Component to do the animation for is a Form itself and if so, automatically getting its content pane?
This would remove this exception handling from the user side and make it more intuitive.
Yes that makes sense. There are a lot of methods that constantly get added/changed and we still didn't add everything that needs adding. In this commit I added a few: https://github.com/codenameone/CodenameOne/commit/4b848039ec6619bf3d6dae3cfe6b8b8d9a7ff115