Editing Animation Rules

You can edit animation rules to let you monitor your experience.

This task shows you how to:

Access Animation Rule Wizard
Create an Animation Rule

Access Animation Rule Wizard

You can access the animation rule wizard to create or edit rules.

In the tree, select a 2D panel.
From the 2D Panel section of the action bar, click Edit Animation Rules .
The Animations dialog box appears. The Elements area shows the structure of the SVG file associated with the 2D panel.
In the Elements area, select a graphical element or a group from the tree.
To create a rule, click New in the Rules area.

Note: Click Edit to consult or edit an existing rule.
Define a new rule. For more information, see Create an Animation Rule.
From the 2D Panel section of the action bar, click Save to save the rules.

Create an Animation Rule

You can create an animation rule in the New Rule dialog box.

Enter a title.

Enter a Boolean condition by combining one or more port names and logical symbols:


Purpose	Action
Insertion of a logical symbol	Click the logical symbol from the calculator.
Insertion of a port	Expand the instance tree and double-click the port name from the tree.

Optional: To recursively apply a rule to the subgroups of the current group, select the Rule applies to subgroups check box.
The option is only available if the selection in the SVG tree is a group.
Click New step .

To describe actions to be executed by the rules, specify one or more properties:

Note: You can define:

An action to be executed when the condition is TRUE (corresponding to Action If True)
An action to be executed when the condition is FALSE (corresponding to Action If False)
Both actions

Use the New step

and Previous step

to navigate between definitions.


Action	Properties Settings
Select Visibility	Select Visible or Hidden.
Select Fill Color	Do one of the following: Click the Edit Color picker to define a color from the Windows palette. Select a predefined color from Basic Colors. Define a color by entering values in the RGB format (values from 0 to 255).
Select Fill Opacity	Enter a valid ratio.
Select Line Color	Do one of the following: Click the Edit Color picker to define a color from the Windows palette. Select a predefined color from Basic Colors. Define a color by entering values in the RGB format (values from 0 to 255).
Select Line Opacity	Enter a valid ratio.
Select Line Width	Enter a valid width.
Select Text Color	Do one of the following: Click the Edit Color picker to define a color from the Windows palette. Select a predefined color from Basic Colors. Define a color by entering values in the RGB format (values from 0 to 255).
Select Text Fill Color	Do one of the following: Click the Edit Color picker to define a color from the Windows palette. Select a predefined color from Basic Colors. Define a color by entering values in the RGB format (values from 0 to 255).
Select Text	Enter the substitution text. Select the format of the text. Select the number of significant digits to be displayed for a float value.
Select Rotation	Enter values for the angle in degrees. Enter the ratio values used to compute the rotation center (values between 0.0 and 1.0). Note: Rotation does not support recursion.
Select Translation	Enter values for the coordinates of the translation vector. Note: Translation does not support recursion.
Select Scale	Enter values for the scale ratios (values between 0.0 and 1.0). Note: Scale does not support recursion.

Tip: You can manually enter a condition in the Condition field.

To create the rule, click OK.

Note: All entries have to be valid for a rule creation.

In the Animations dialog box:

The rule title appears in the Rules area.
In the Elements area, the SVG element appears in green and bold, and its parent hierarchy appears in bold.
Hover over the rule title to display its content.
Note: An element is displayed in red color, if an error appears on a rule.