Chaining Animations

[Gerold Krommer]

Happy new year to all,

First I must admit that I'm an occasional HelpXplain user (currently).
I'm about to document some Android apps, first for private use to train for professional customer documentation. The following question is either totally trivial or highly complex ...

It is all about cursor animations.

First - on a move+click - I do not want to start the move from the position of the previous slide, that does not make sense what the screen has changed in-between, looks like the cursor starts somewhere randomly on the screen. Either I would want to specifiy the starting position or even a move-in from left or right is better.

Second, I would like to chain animations in general, for now with cursors in particular, so do a move+click, animate or show something else as the result of the click and then move the cursor on to the next action.

I would like to attach what I have achieved so far, but .ewriters are not allowed to attache. I wil ltry to rename it to .png and see what happens

Kind regards,
/Gerold

[Gerold Krommer]

Ok, it got deleted without comment.

I put it publicly here, link expires in 10 days.

https://dcprofessionals-my.sharepoint.c ... w?e=NXVwgi

[Tim Green]

Hi Gerold,

First - on a move+click - I do not want to start the move from the position of the previous slide, that does not make sense what the screen has changed in-between, looks like the cursor starts somewhere randomly on the screen. Either I would want to specifiy the starting position or even a move-in from left or right is better.

To achieve this you just need to interrupt the existing cursor sequence. Delete the cursor in the second slide that has changed and add a new one in the position where you want it to be when it moves in. Then, instead of a cursor animation, apply a regular Move In animation to it.

Second, I would like to chain animations in general, for now with cursors in particular, so do a move+click, animate or show something else as the result of the click and then move the cursor on to the next action.

You can't yet chain animations on the same object in a single slide. Make a copy of the slide and add the continuing (effectively chained) animation to the cursor in the next slide.