Animating an object - Growing/shrinking

Hey Luke!  Thanks for posing your question.  This discussion might start you off with ideas to avoid animations.  And here's a grow AND move example.

Hi Crystal, 

Thanks for your help but those links weren't quite what I was looking for. I have just thought of an alternative that will work for me though!

Luke

Oh, glad to hear you were able to find a way.  Feel free to let us know what you did in case anyone else comes across this discussion.  ;)  Thanks!

Ha sorry, that would've been helpful! 

I found that I could use different layers to have the object appear as if it's growing or shrinking using the grow and shrink entrance and exit animations. The animations overlay the object on the stage and when the animation completes, using a variable, it triggers a state change on the stage object. This makes it look like the object has grown or shrunk, depending on what the learner chose.

Hopefully I've not made that sound too confusing, I'll try to knock up an example when I get 5 minutes. 

Luke

Here's what worked for me.

Obviously it has its limitations, but it does exactly what I needed it to do.

Very creative solution, Luke- Looks great! Thanks a bunch for sharing here :)

Awesome, Luke!  Way to pay it forward.

hi Luke, If you want to ever move the circle easily without all the layer adjustments , you can do the same thing with entrance and exit animations(grow entrance on scale up)(shrink exit on scale down) placed on Objects in different states.  Each state object would be successively larger.  Glad you worked it out!

Thanks for popping in to share that tip, Richard! 

Hi Richard,

Good shout, I didn't think of that. That'll make it much easier to edit or add new sizes. 

Thanks!