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Did you check the actual value of maximumWidth? You don't seem to set a specific maximumWidth in your code.
The default value for maximumWidth is 16777215, and you set a duration of 1 msec. for the closing animation. Fading from 16777215 to 3 in 1 msec. would look like "instant", I guess.