Animations between States
By
Gary Turner
Hi,
I have a text box with different states which will change depending on which button is pressed. However what I would like, is each time the state changes (a button is pressed) the text box has an entrance animation. This way each click it will play a short 1/2 second fade when the text changes.
Is this possible?
I have tried going back to edit the states however the option of adding an animation is greyed out and does not allow me to add an animation for each state.
Thanks
Gary
3 Replies
Try cutting the object out of the state. Then stop editing starts, paste the object to the slide, add your animation, then cut and paste it back into the state. That should do the trick.
You sir are a gentleman!!!
Worked a charm, although when I pasted it back in to the state it did require reformatting as the text box went a lot wider and the text a little off. I can live with that though.
Thanks for the help!
Yeah, states can be a bit buggy. You may also notice some undesirable (or perhaps desirable) side effects as a result of doing this. For an in-depth exploration see here, but in short, when you paste an object into a state it will appear on top of objects in other states.
Glad that helped Gary.