A <i>Sketch Pad</i> Animation is a series of frames, designed using the
<a href="Drawing">Drawing Tools</a>. The animation tools allow you to
manipulate the animation.
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In this list, the contents of the brackets are a keyboard short cut.
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<DT>Show previous (1)<DD>When this is selected, the previous frame will be shown
in light grey behind the current frame. Useful for finding where to place
a moving image. Note this uses bitwise OR, so some colour distortion may
occur.
<DT>First frame (Ctrl-Left)<DD>Move to the first frame.
<DT>Previous frame (Left)<DD>Move to the previous frame. Note wrap around will occur, so pressing previous on the first frame will move to the last frame.
<DT>Current frame<DD>This is a display of the current frame number.
<DT>Next frame (Right)<DD>Move to the next frame. Note wrap around will occur, so pressing next on the last frame will move to the first frame.
<DT>Last frame (Ctrl-Right)<DD>Move to the last frame.
<DT>Stop (Escape)<DD>Stop a playing animation.
<DT>Play (Return)<DD>Clicking Select will start playing. Clicking Adjust will reverse
the direction. Clicking Menu will produce a menu with two sections. The
bottom section allows you to choose the speed it is played at. When the
"Loop" option is selected and the "Reverse" option is
not, the animation will loop at the end (or beginning if you have reversed
the direction). When the "Reverse" option is selected and the
"Loop" option is not, the animation will go to the last frame and
back again, so it ends up at the first frame. When both are selected, it
will continualy go to the last frame and back again, not stopping until you
click on "Stop," or turn "Loop" off.
<DT>Show next (2)<DD>When this is selected, the next frame will be shown
in light grey behind the current frame. Useful for finding where to place
a moving image. Note this uses bitwise OR, so some colour distortion may
occur.
<DT>Copy<DD>Clicking will open the copy menu. From that you can choose to
copy this frame to all the others, or copy it to a copy buffer, from
which it can be pasted into other frames.
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The interactive Graphical display shows where you are in the animation relative to the
start and end of the animation. You can also drag this bar to move to a
particular frame.
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