Animating Object Properties

Whether you have developed one or one hundred pictures using iFIX, you probably have discovered that creating these pictures can involve much more than just drawing a static oval and linking it to a process database. Thanks in great part to the power of animation, you can make your pictures perform in ways that you have never seen before. iFIX gives you the ability to acquire and interpret data so that your pictures perform as you expect them to.

This chapter describes animations, and how they give you the power to design custom pictures and dynamic displays.

• How Animations Work
• Animating an Object's Properties: Overview
• Defining Data Sources
• Animating Properties Using Color
• Animating Object Properties with Visual Basic
• Animating a Grouped Object
• Modifying Animations
• Deleting Animations
• Building Expressions

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