Microsoft Expression Blend - Creating Timelines

Alright. I have already open the animation project from the lesson four folder. And what we have got her is a couple more of those number controls that we saw earlier as well as his fear. We are going to work on creating animations to move this fear around the screen. When you creating elements on your art board the design more space is usually the best place to work. But as soon as you want to get into animation you need the objects and timeline inspector to be wider so you can see more of the timeline. I am going up to the window menu and choose the animation work space. You can also switch to this by pressing F7. Sometimes change in the work space it does not always move your art board to the most upper tone location. You can simply double click on the paint tool or use the paint tool to move the art board to some place where it is more accessible.

Now if you notice my interactions palate has move to the bottom in the objects and timelines inspector has gotten significantly wider. I am going to create the timeline now so we can start working. A timeline is a windows presentation foundation concept that incorporates times with properties. When I click on the plus key here Blen is going to ask me for a name for this timeline. This was going to be simple move. Now he timeline in a few other things have change in my application to let us take a look what is happened. At the top of my screen I have done indicated that timeline recording is on. Similar to when we started editing triggers, this is telling me that any modifications I make or not actually applied to the elements, but are applied to the element at the given time in the given timeline.
The actual timeline display is now shown including the play head which is, the yellow line indicating at what time the changes were making are, as well as the play pause controls up above. This buttons allows you to move forward one frame at a time or jump at the beginning or end of your animation. At the moment, since I do not have any animation jumping to the last frame would not do anything. There is also a text box here that if I want to move to specific time, I can just type that time in. Press return and it will move. In this case, I jump out to a minute and thirty seconds but for starters I just want to start to beginning. If I needed to I can press the x button here to remove the timeline. But right now I am happy with what I have got. When you are working with multiple timelines you can press the drop down here to show all of the timelines or select default to leave timeline editing mode. I am going to switch back into the simply move and let us go ahead and start creating an animation.


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