BBorges Posted January 31, 2011 Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 Hi guys,I have a very silly question but it is driving me crazy I am not able to figure this out. This is under "Objects & Animation": I add a frame and inside this frame I add a picture. I select the frame (and I see the keyframe selected) but whenever I try to move the frame with the click of the mouse, it automatically changes the selection to the picture INSIDE the frame, and the only thing I am actually moving is therefore the picture, not the frame. At first I thought trying to move the frame would not be a legal action, but if I go to "Size/Position" with the frame selected, I am able to move it with the coordinates. So hence the question, how do I move the frame with the mouse?Thanks in advance,BB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BBorges Posted January 31, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 Well, maybe still on time: why would I need frame with a picture inside of it instead of simply adding a picture directly? I can't still figure out how to use the frame and it's real functionality.Any link to guidelines or explanations on FRAMES?Thanks again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lin Evans Posted January 31, 2011 Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 Hi BB,There are countless ways you can use Frames or Rectangles to you advantage in creating various animations with your pictures or with objects. In this sense, objects being a PNG transparency where only the subject is visible and whatever background there might be has been rendered transparent. Perhaps it might help you to download my free tutorials from the Tutorials and Articles section here:http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=7901There is an AVI tutorial on Frames and Rectangles which can get you started. To address your immediate question, however, you are actually talking about a parent/child relationship. The image is not really "inside" a frame, but rather "attached" to the frame in a parent/child relationship. What this means is that you can manipulate the parent in terms of size, position, rotation, etc., and the child will follow the parent's lead. However, the child can also have its own animation within the parameters of the parent's animation. For example, if you were to separate the frame and image so that the image were in the bottom center of your monitor to start and the frame were in the center of the monitor. Create a keyframe at some point along the time line for both the frame and the image then set the rotation for the frame to 360 degrees the child "image" would rotate around the screen in a circular motion from the bottom to side to top to side to bottom. When the image was at the top of the monitor it would be upside down during the rotation, etc. But, if you were to set the rotation simultaneously for the "child image" so that it rotated in the opposite direction from the frame, the image would remain upright during its circle around the monitor. The above is only one of countless ways you can use frames. A rectangle might be considered as a "visible frame". They are quite similar in this respect. Being invisible, you can use the frame in countless creative ways to perform various actions. For example, you might assign some "action" such as to "exit" on a mouse click to the frame. Position the frame at the top right of the screen and make it large enough to cover say a quarter of the screen. Then any time some viewer clicked the mouse in the upper right quadrant of the screen, the slideshow would "exit." As for your question about not being able to "select" the frame, on the bottom right of the Objects and Animations screen, click on the "Tools" button and be certain that you have a checkmark beside "Ignore Objects Not Selected". Not having this checkmark may be responsible for the issue you are seeing.I think if you download my tutorial set (the last selection on the PTE Made Easy section) it may help you to understand many things about PTE which you may find helpful.Best regards,Lin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BBorges Posted January 31, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 Lin, Thanks for the tip about the tutorials, I am already downloading it!As for your question about not being able to "select" the frame, on the bottom right of the Objects and Animations screen, click on the "Tools" button and be certain that you have a checkmark beside "Ignore Objects Not Selected". Not having this checkmark may be responsible for the issue you are seeing.And you are absolutely correct! Thanks again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Porter Posted January 31, 2011 Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 Hi BB,As for your question about not being able to "select" the frame, on the bottom right of the Objects and Animations screen, click on the "Tools" button and be certain that you have a checkmark beside "Ignore Objects Not Selected". Not having this checkmark may be responsible for the issue you are seeing.LinThanks also for the answer to that as I had the same problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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