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BlurAnimationTest.kt

Hey all. Having a bit of an issue with animating after switching a VBox to be a global value. Anyone know why the animation is happening instantly after the inputted time instead of interpolating?

For reference, I basically need to blur the root of the first view in the application from multiple places within the app when an action is called. Not sure if making the pane a global value is the best way to go about it.

Are effect animatable? AFAIK they aren't (though I have never tried). Instead could you animate the blur radius or something.

Something like this:
```
fun blur(forwards: Boolean) {
        if (forwards) {
            val blur = GaussianBlur(0.0)
            defaultView.effect = blur
            blur.radiusProperty().animate(60.0, 2.seconds)
        }
...
```

Regarding the design, I do something similar using an `EventBus`. Anything in the application can post an event to the bus and then when notified interested UI elements can update their apperance.

That way you wouldnt have to make `defaultView` global

Animating the blur radius did the trick! I could have sworn I animated the blur property somewhere before... guess I was dreaming :exploding_head:

I love reading about these animation tidbits! I feel like I'm learning all the time from this

`animate` should probably be defined on something more restrictive than `WritableValue&lt;T&gt;` to avoid this kinda thing