Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk View Machine Edition Users Guide - Manual (Page 474)

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Set up vertical slider animation
With vertical slider animation, you can use a drawing object to set the value of a tag. To
do this, define a path for the object. At run time, when the operator moves the object
vertically (using a mouse), the pixel position of the object is translated into values that are
written to the tag. If the tag value is changed externally, the position of the slider changes
as well.
An object can have both vertical and horizontal slider animation.
 To move an object on the display "up", a negative offset number is required. The top-
left corner of the display has the coordinates of 0,0.
Vertical slider animation is available for all drawing objects except images and panels.
For tips about creating slider objects, see the previous section.
For more information about setting up vertical slider animation, see Help.
Apply animation to groups
You can apply animation to objects and then group those objects and apply animation to
the group. When the display is running, animation is applied as follows:
These types of animation Are applied like this
Color Animation attached to individual objects within the group
overrides group animation.
Fill Animation results for both the individual objects and the group are
applied.
Horizontal slider, vertical slider Group animation overrides animation attached to individual
objects within the group.
Height, width, horizontal
position, vertical position, and
rotation Animation results for individual objects and the group are
combined. For example, if an individual’s horizontal position
animation result is to offset the object by 100 pixels, and the
group’s result is to offset the group by 200 pixels, the individual
object is offset by 300 pixels.
Visibility When the group’s animation visibility is False (the group is not
visible), then no objects in the group are visible, regardless of the
animation status of the individual objects.
When the group’s animation visibility is True (the group is visible),
the visibility of an object within the group is determined by the
individual object animation.