Frame Gallery Overview

Shift+F12

The Frame Gallery is used to create animated GIF files
. The gallery shows each frame in the animation sequence with the last frame at the top. (This makes it easier to understand the effect of the Background and Overlay flags, described below.)

Note that the Frame Gallery is only accessible in 'Animated' type documents. See Creating new documents for details of creating Animated documents.

New Create a new frame

Copy Copy an existing frame

Properties Frame properties

Delete Delete a frame

Preview Preview the current frame or the complete animation

All Visible Display all frames

All Editable Make all visible frames editable

Background and Overlay Controls the overlaying of frames

Current frame

The current frame is highlighted in the gallery and is the frame into which all newly created objects are placed. To change the current frame, just click on a frame in the gallery.

Many operations using the Frame Gallery are more easily accessible using the Frame Gallery pop-up menu.

Tips

If you import Xara LX documents containing layers: the Frame Gallery uses layer technology to create the individual frames. This means that to preserve the appearance of the import document, Xara LX has to move all objects into a single layer. This means that when you save the document, you lose any layer information. See Layers and Frames for more information.

To edit all the frames in the document (including the invisible ones) click both the All Visible and All Editable buttons.

Movie

Creating Animated GIFs

_______________

Related Topics

Frames

Animated GIF files