Commonly used buttons

General techniques

Commonly used buttons

Animo 2.0 uses buttons that appear on many windows. These common buttons are described in this section.

Current frame button

The current frame button ensures the currently selected frame is visible in the window displaying a sequence of frames:

Clicking on this button centres the frame, if possible, in the window.

Orientation button

The orientation button allows you to change the view in a window displaying a sequence of frames from portrait (vertical) to landscape (horizontal). The button is initially displayed (as shown below) with the switchable orientation icon:

With the button in this state the view's orientation is determined by the size of the window, which you can alter by dragging one of the bottom corners. Dragging beyond the square when this icon is displayed causes the view of the sequence to flip.

Click on the button once and the window changes (if necessary) to display the sequence within a portrait view. The button changes to display an arrow pointing down:

Click again and the sequence is displayed with a landscape view, and the icon changes to show an arrow pointing to the right:

A third click cycles the button back to its original state and the view's orientation is again determined by the dimensions of the window.

Note that when you click on the orientation button, it does not change the size of the window.

General techniques

Commonly used buttons

Current frame button

Orientation button