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Controlling the visibility of floating boxes


The visibility property lets you hide an object during the time span between any two keyframes. Invisible floating boxes offer three major benefits:
  • You can make objects appear suddenly, to create a more lively impression of your animation.
  • In animations with multiple images, you can hide all the images until the animation is completely loaded in the viewer's browser. This avoids the problem of the playback beginning before the browser has all the information to play smoothly.
  • As a good practice, you can hide an image when you use an action to switch the image content of an image in an animated scene. If the image remains visible, this may cause choppy animation while the browser is downloading the new image from the Web server.

    • To hide a floating box:

    1 Click the keyframe from which you want to hide the floating box. In the Floating Box Inspector, deselect the Visible option.

    2 If desired, repeat the step for additional keyframes.

    3 Click the Play button () to preview your animation. The floating box should disappear temporarily.

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