Thanks for the wiki page, it was extremely helpful. I've put together a macro that expands animations into separate slides, which can then be exported as a pdf and displayed with a pdf reader in presentation mode. I've attached a simple example presentation file with these macros. Just run ExpandAnimations.
Right now, this only works for appear/disappear transitions, which is what I typically need, though I think the foundation is in place to expand the functionality. It occurs to me that the best way to do this is probably to use the actual presentation engine to "play" the animation forward and then freeze it at certain stopping points and grab the current state as a new slide. That way I wouldn't have to reinvent the functionality of running animations inside a macro. Any thoughts on whether this would work? Thanks for all the help! -Matthew On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 6:16 AM, Christian Lippka - Sun Microsystems GmbH - Hamburg <christian.lip...@sun.com> wrote: > Hi Matthew, > > I copied some documentation from the OpenDocument format and made it into a > wiki page > > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Impress/API/Animations > > also added an example basic macro how to convert the effects tree into a > flat view. I try to > add some more information in the future. Feel free to correct any errors you > find and add > additional documentation. Esp. if I do something really stupid in the basic > example as I'm > not very fluent in OpenOffice.org basic. > > Regards, > Christian > > Matthew Neeley wrote: >> >> Hi Christian- >> >> Sorry, I think that was a false alarm. I was expecting to find >> several child nodes of the root. In fact there is only one, the main >> sequence, which then itself has more children. The enumeration works >> after all, as expected, I just didn't know what the animation node >> tree looks like. I'll keep playing with this. >> >> -Matthew >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@graphics.openoffice.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@graphics.openoffice.org > >
anim_expansion.odp
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