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DavidCharney1
8 years agoCommunity Member
I am late to the game but wanted to share my Storyline/ Javascript experiment. It uses Greensocks JS library to allow me to animate through states or through sliders/dials/variables.
http://illumengroup.com/dev/Test/eLearningLocker_Tweening/story_html5.html
http://illumengroup.com/dev/Test/eLearningLocker_Tweening/story_html5.html
- Anne-Seller8 years agoCommunity MemberThis is really cool, David! I would really like to learn more about how to include JS libraries in my Storyline projects, to be able to create this kind of animation. Can you offer any tips on a good place to learn the basics? Can you also recommend a good text editor? I recently discovered the "Atom" text editor, but it might be too advanced for me at this stage. Thanks! - Anne
- DavidCharney18 years agoCommunity MemberHi Anne,
Thanks! I will be cleaning up a Storyline file that I can share so you can see how it works. If you want to use some JavaScript, I recommend putting the word JavaScript in front of anything you might want to try that Storyline can't do itself, such as "JavaScript get current date"...lots of good info should show up. Often JavaScript is used to adjust variables in Storyline. As for a text editor. I tend to use Notepad++- Anne-Seller8 years agoCommunity MemberThanks very much for your quick reply and for the info, David! And for your generous offer to share your Storyline file - I really appreciate it!
- CeciliaBernal8 years agoCommunity MemberDavid, I agree with Anne, these are so nice animations! Looking forward to seeing the SL file, I still don't understand JS very well, so every example helps me to get the code more clearly.
Anne, I started using Brackets, it's a free text editor.- Anne-Seller8 years agoCommunity MemberThanks, Cecilia! I will check out Brackets too... :)