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Robert Homes
Where can I find a comprehensive explanation of how the WithPrevious and
OnPageClick triggertypes work? Microsoft's help files list 5 or 6
"triggertypes", including these two, but don't explain exactly how they
work.
I want to animate 5 to 10 shapes (pictures) and start the animation when the
slide is first displayed during a slideshow. I want each picture to display
(an "entrance" effect) and stay around for a few seconds, then disappear
("exit"). Meanwhile, I want other pictures to enter and exit at different
times, some of them while the previous pictures are being displayed or
exited. All this is supposed to be controlled in VBA with the "timeline"
object.
I would like to set all the MainSequence timeline events to "start" on the
first "page click" (when the slide is first displayed), and then change the
"timing.triggerdelaytime" setting for each to start at different times. But
it seems that a new "page click" is then requried to start each animation up
after the first one.
The WithPrevious and AfterPrevious settings seem to have a different
problem. It seems to only allow you to trigger the next event based on the
event directly preceding it. This makes it difficult or impossible to
trigger succeeding shapes, since there are "exit" events intersperced among
the "entrance" events.
Finding out the precise details of these objects is difficult since the
timeline object (under which all of this takes place) is rather new, and
there doesn't seem to be any book out there that really delves into these
settings completely. I found 3 articles on the Microsoft Office Developer
site about this, but they are not as complete about some of this as they
could be.
Thanks to anyone who can help me with this.
Robert Homes
(e-mail address removed)
OnPageClick triggertypes work? Microsoft's help files list 5 or 6
"triggertypes", including these two, but don't explain exactly how they
work.
I want to animate 5 to 10 shapes (pictures) and start the animation when the
slide is first displayed during a slideshow. I want each picture to display
(an "entrance" effect) and stay around for a few seconds, then disappear
("exit"). Meanwhile, I want other pictures to enter and exit at different
times, some of them while the previous pictures are being displayed or
exited. All this is supposed to be controlled in VBA with the "timeline"
object.
I would like to set all the MainSequence timeline events to "start" on the
first "page click" (when the slide is first displayed), and then change the
"timing.triggerdelaytime" setting for each to start at different times. But
it seems that a new "page click" is then requried to start each animation up
after the first one.
The WithPrevious and AfterPrevious settings seem to have a different
problem. It seems to only allow you to trigger the next event based on the
event directly preceding it. This makes it difficult or impossible to
trigger succeeding shapes, since there are "exit" events intersperced among
the "entrance" events.
Finding out the precise details of these objects is difficult since the
timeline object (under which all of this takes place) is rather new, and
there doesn't seem to be any book out there that really delves into these
settings completely. I found 3 articles on the Microsoft Office Developer
site about this, but they are not as complete about some of this as they
could be.
Thanks to anyone who can help me with this.
Robert Homes
(e-mail address removed)