Command description

Selection of the ‘Animation’ popup menu opens the following modeless dialog:

Fig. 30 : ‘Animation’ dialog

• Setup Animation opens another dialog to define presentation to animate. It is described later on in this chapter

• Generate frames button computes all presentation on selected timestamps (see Setup Animation). Presentations are kept in memory.

• The other buttons acts as a record player (to play, move forward, move backward, and so on), define speed for animation and save a bitmap file for each timestamp on disk.

‘Close’ button stops the on going animation, clear memory and exits the animation mode.

To go on the explanation, ‘Setup Animation’ button open the next dialog:

Fig. 31 : ‘Setup Animation’ dialog

• Use range of timestamps allows user to define a range for timestamps to consider. If not checked, all available timestamps of the variable are considered

• Field shows the list of fields available

• Properties area is defined by two buttons. The first one allows user to select the presentation mode he want to see during the animation. The second one launches the configuration dialogs corresponding to the selected presentation (already described in GUI specs of LOT 1 and LOT 3).