Move Action
June 9, 2017 12:00 AM
Recently I've been looking at each and every item on the Lectora UI to see if I know what it does and if it's something new to me, to see if it's "useful".
I'm up to the Move action and the dialog box has a VAR button in the button left corner. Does anyone know what the purpose for this variable is? (The Size action has a similar VAR button.)
I've checked the help file but it didn't help.
Discussion (6)
Both the Lectora Move with Variable as Tim suggests and a more Javascript based approach on a Move show here:
http://community.trivantis.com/shared-content/sequencing-with-gsap-timelinemax/
You can use a variable to define the target position or size, instead of entering a single value, so you can calculate the values before moving or move to a position entered by a user etc.
;-) For me it was clear at first sight ;-) Hints give a somewhat better description when you hover over the 'VAR'-button
Math, thanks for that. I need to congratulate the UI designer at Trivantis for that bit of confusing/ambiguous design work. I've spent 45 minutes and 3 posts trying to work out what it's for :-(
It would've been better for them to put a link that read "Create new variable" instead of a button labelled "VAR" (which is typically used to assign a variable to something) or it would've been ideal if they'd added the item "New variable..." to the bottom of the drop down list of variables (like they do elsewhere).
On the Move To dialog box there are three VAR buttons. One next to the X position field, one next to the Y position field, and one next to the OK button.
The first two I understand but what does the third one do? If I set a value for the variable for VAR 3 it appears to do nothing to the move. If I check the value after the element has moved the variable value is unchanged.
the third one is just for creating a new variable. Which then you can use in the upper 2...
Notice the difference...the upper two have dropdown arrows whereas the third one...has a green + indicating you are adding something...
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