Advanced animation

If you select the Advanced check box, the advanced animation settings appear:

Here you can add several animations for a single action. Configure the corresponding animation at the top of the window and click Add.

Limitations:

• A parallel animation must contain non-overlapping groups.
• You can include the Selected and Current states only once in a parallel animation.
• For draw modes with a "slash" in the name (Selected/Normal): if you include a selected state, the groups used in the parallel animations must not contain buttons, except for the one to which you add the selected states. This is because in these modes the selected state already contains the normal state.
• All animations in the parallel animation list are sorted according to the position of the original objects on the screen. Therefore, when you include selected states, pay attention to which group these states are animated with.

The animation order can be parallel or sequential. Parallel: all animations in the list are played at the same time. Sequential: all animations are played one after another. If you create a sequential animation, you must choose whether it is an appearance or a disappearance of objects.

Appearance/disappearance - defines when and which objects are shown on the screen. Appearance: at the first animation step all animated objects are invisible; at the second step only those that appeared at the first step are visible, and so on. Disappearance: at the first animation step all animated objects are visible; at the second step all of them are visible except those that disappeared at the first step, and so on.

For parallel animations you can use different durations (Number of frames), but the first item in the list must have the longest duration.

To remove an advanced animation, clear the "Advanced" check box.

Right-clicking the list opens a popup menu where you can set the duration for all animations in the list.

The "Add" button adds an animation directly below the selected item in the list, or at the end of the list if no item is selected. Holding the "Ctrl" key while clicking the "Add" button adds the animation before the selected item.

Hotkeys

• Enter or double-click - loads the advanced animation data into the edit controls.
• Ctrl+F - change the number of frames (duration) for all animations.
• Ctrl+R - replace the slide/clip/scale values.