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TPDesign4 (v3.2 or higher)

Creating Animated Text Effects

Use the Text Position tweener to apply animated text effects to multi-state buttons. The text position tweener

allows you to have the button text move around the button area when it is pressed. Animated text effects can be

used alone or in conjunction with the other tweeners to create all sorts of eye-catching visual effects.

To create animated text effects:

1. Select (or create a new) multi-state button.

2. Add text to the button (via the Text field in the Properties window - States tab).

3. Set the Text Justification field to Absolute.

4. Move the text into it's starting position for the animation via the Image/Text Positioning dialog (select

5. Image/Text Positioning from the State Manager context menu).

6. Insert at least one state (tweeners require at least three states to work).

7. Copy the text from the first state to the last state to be tweened, and move it to its end position in the

animation via the Image/Text Positioning dialog (select Image/Text Positioning from the State Manager

context menu).

8. Ctrl+click to select just the two states containing the text start and end positions in the State Manager

window. They must be separated by at least one stage, and you should not select the intermediate states).

The Text Position tweener will generate a motion effect that moves the text across the button.

Tweeners sub-menu

Select Tweeners from the States Menu or the State Manager context menu to open the Tweeners sub-menu.

This menu allows you to select a type of tweener to use in creating animations on multi-state buttons. Note that

depending on the elements of the selected buttons, some of these options may not be available. For example,

the Bitmap Position option is only available if the selected buttons use a bitmap. The options in this menu

include:

Border Color - This option tweens the Border color (only) between two selected button states.

Fill Color - This option tweens the Fill color (only) between two selected button states.

Text Color - This option tweens the Text color (only) between two selected button states.

Text Effect Color - This option tweens the Text Effect Color (only) between two selected button

states.

All Colors - This option tweens the Border, Fill, Text, and Text Effect colors between two selected

states all at once.

Overall Opacity - This option tweens the Overall Opacity (only) between two selected button

states.

Bitmap Position - This option tweens the position of a bitmap applied to two selected button states.

Icon Position - This option tweens the position of an icon applied to two selected button states.

Text Position - This option tweens the position of text applied to two selected button states.

All Positions - This option will tween the Bitmap, Icon, and Text positions applied to two selected

button states all at once.

Text Size - This option tweens the size of text applied to two selected button states.

In order to apply motion tweening to an icon, bitmap or text, the justification for the

icon, bitmap or text must be set to Absolute.

In order to apply motion tweening to an icon, bitmap or text, the justification for the

icon, bitmap or text must be set to Absolute.

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