About Animations

You can use animations to change the appearance of graphic elements at run time. Animations are driven by data that comes from equipment.item or tag values and expressions as well as element properties.

You can use:

• Visualization animations such as visibility, fill style, line style, text style, blinking, percent fill horizontal, percent fill vertical, horizontal location, vertical location, width, height, orientation, value display or tooltip.

• Interaction animations such as disable, user input, horizontal slider, vertical slider, pushbutton, action script, show graphic or hide graphic.

• Element-specific animations for the Status element and Windows common control elements.

Each element in your Industrial graphic can have one or more animations. You can disable and enable individual animations. You can also cut, copy and paste animations between elements. Only animations supported by the target element are pasted.

You can also substitute references and strings in animations.

Note: Not all animations are available for all element types. Some animations do not make logical sense, such as line style with a text element. You cannot select or copy these invalid combinations.

Related Topics

Animating Graphic Elements