About Archiving and Animating Archives

The player provides you with a quick and easy way to overview the improvements done on a product.

The player progressively displays the archives in the archive window with an animation, helping you to visualize the archives in the sequence of their creation. You can then compare a visualized archive with a reference archive. You can also easily navigate from one archive to another.

There are two ways to play an animation. You can play an animation using either of the following ways:

• Compass, when an archive is selected.
• Archive Slide command, if it is available in the action bar.

Archive window is a viewer in which the archives are displayed and animated.

You can set the opacity of the archive window using the slider provided at the upper-left corner of the window. When the opacity decreases, the visualized archive becomes less visible, and the reference archive becomes more visible. Comparison of two archives is then easier.

The Play panel has the widgets which help you to play and control the animation.

You can use the following widgets to control the animation:

• Play Forward: Runs the animation in forward direction.
• Play Backward: Runs the animation in backward direction.
• Pause: Pauses the animation.
• Increase Speed: Increases the speed of the animation.
• Decrease Speed: Decreases the speed of the animation.
• Go to Begin: Stops and takes the animation to the beginning.
• Go to End: Stops and takes the animation to the end.
• Step Forward: Runs the animation rapidly forward in steps.
• Step Backward: Runs the animation rapidly backward in steps.
• One Shot: Plays animation only once.
• Continuous: Keeps animation playing continuously in forward or backward direction.

• Bounce: Keeps animation playing in forward and backward directions alternatively.