Shape Animation

Animations are visual effects that can be applied to texts, images, shapes, or charts. They give life to presentations or its constituents.

Why Use Animations in Presentations?

Using animations, you can

• control the flow of information
• emphasize important points
• increase interest or participation among your audience
• make content easier to read or assimilate or process
• draw your readers or viewers attention to important parts in a presentation

PowerPoint provides many options and tools for animations and animation effects across the entrance, exit, emphasis, and motion paths categories.

Animations in Aspose.Slides

• Aspose.Slides provides the classes and types you need to work with animations under the Aspose.Slides.Animation namespace,
• Aspose.Slides provides over 150 animation effects under the EffectType enumeration. These effects are essentially the same (or equivalent) effects used in PowerPoint.

Apply Animation to TextBox

Aspose.Slides for Java allows you to apply animation to the text in a shape.

1. Create an instance of the Presentation class.
2. Obtain a slide reference through its index.
3. Add a rectangle IAutoShape.
4. Add text to IAutoShape.TextFrame.
5. Get a main sequence of effects.
6. Add an animation effect to IAutoShape.
7. Set the TextAnimation.BuildType property to the value from BuildType Enumeration.
8. Write the presentation to disk as a PPTX file.

This Java code shows you how to apply the Fade effect to AutoShape and set the text animation to By 1st Level Paragraphs value:

// Instantiates a presentation class that represents a presentation file.
Presentation pres = new Presentation();
try {
    ISlide sld = pres.getSlides().get_Item(0);

    // Adds new AutoShape with text
    IAutoShape autoShape = sld.getShapes().addAutoShape(ShapeType.Rectangle, 20, 20, 150, 100);

    ITextFrame textFrame = autoShape.getTextFrame();
    textFrame.setText("First paragraph \nSecond paragraph \n Third paragraph");

    // Gets the main sequence of the slide.
    ISequence sequence = sld.getTimeline().getMainSequence();

    // Adds Fade animation effect to shape
    IEffect effect = sequence.addEffect(autoShape, EffectType.Fade, EffectSubtype.None, EffectTriggerType.OnClick);

    // Animates shape text by 1st level paragraphs
    effect.getTextAnimation().setBuildType(BuildType.ByLevelParagraphs1);

    // Save the PPTX file to disk
    pres.save(path + "AnimText_out.pptx", SaveFormat.Pptx);
} finally {
    if (pres != null) pres.dispose();
}

Besides applying animations to text, you can also apply animations to a single Paragraph. See Animated Text.

Apply Animation to PictureFrame

1. Create an instance of the Presentation class.
2. Get a slide’s reference through its index.
3. Add or get a PictureFrame on the slide.
4. Get the main sequence of effects.
5. Add an animation effect to PictureFrame.
6. Write the presentation to disk as a PPTX file.

This Java code shows you how to apply the Fly effect to a picture frame:

// Instantiates a presentation class that represents a presentation file.
Presentation pres = new Presentation();
try {
    // Load Image to be added in presentaiton image collection
    byte[] imageBytes = Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get("aspose-logo.jpg"));
    IPPImage image = pres.getImages().addImage(imageBytes);

    // Adds picture frame to slide
    IPictureFrame picFrame = pres.getSlides().get_Item(0).getShapes().addPictureFrame(ShapeType.Rectangle, 50, 50, 100, 100, image);

    // Gets the main sequence of the slide.
    ISequence sequence = pres.getSlides().get_Item(0).getTimeline().getMainSequence();

    // Adds Fly from Left animation effect to picture frame
    IEffect effect = sequence.addEffect(picFrame, EffectType.Fly, EffectSubtype.Left, EffectTriggerType.OnClick);

    // Save the PPTX file to disk
    pres.save(path + "AnimImage_out.pptx", SaveFormat.Pptx);
} catch(IOException e) {
} finally {
    if (pres != null) pres.dispose();
}

Apply Animation to Shape

1. Create an instance of the Presentation class.
2. Get a slide’s reference through its index.
3. Add a rectangle IAutoShape.
4. Add a Bevel IAutoShape (when this object is clicked, the animation gets played).
5. Create a sequence of effects on the bevel shape.
6. Create a custom UserPath.
7. Add commands for moving to the UserPath.
8. Write the presentation to disk as a PPTX file.

This Java code shows you how to apply the PathFootball (path football) effect to a shape:

// Instantiate a Presentation class that represents a PPTX file.
Presentation pres = new Presentation();
try {
    ISlide sld = pres.getSlides().get_Item(0);

    // Creates PathFootball effect for existing shape from scratch.
    IAutoShape ashp = sld.getShapes().addAutoShape(ShapeType.Rectangle, 150, 150, 250, 25);
    ashp.addTextFrame("Animated TextBox");

    // Adds the PathFootBall animation effect
    pres.getSlides().get_Item(0).getTimeline().getMainSequence().addEffect(ashp, EffectType.PathFootball,
            EffectSubtype.None, EffectTriggerType.AfterPrevious);

    // Creates some kind of "button".
    IShape shapeTrigger = pres.getSlides().get_Item(0).getShapes().addAutoShape(ShapeType.Bevel, 10, 10, 20, 20);

    // Creates a sequence of effects for this button.
    ISequence seqInter = pres.getSlides().get_Item(0).getTimeline().getInteractiveSequences().add(shapeTrigger);

     // Creates a custom user path. Our object will be moved only after the button is clicked.
    IEffect fxUserPath = seqInter.addEffect(ashp, EffectType.PathUser, EffectSubtype.None, EffectTriggerType.OnClick);

     // Adds commands for moving since created path is empty.
    IMotionEffect motionBhv = ((IMotionEffect)fxUserPath.getBehaviors().get_Item(0));

    Point2D.Float[] pts = new Point2D.Float[1];
    pts[0] = new Point2D.Float(0.076f, 0.59f);
    motionBhv.getPath().add(MotionCommandPathType.LineTo, pts, MotionPathPointsType.Auto, true);
    pts[0] = new Point2D.Float(-0.076f, -0.59f);
    motionBhv.getPath().add(MotionCommandPathType.LineTo, pts, MotionPathPointsType.Auto, false);
    motionBhv.getPath().add(MotionCommandPathType.End, null, MotionPathPointsType.Auto, false);

     // Writes the PPTX file to disk
    pres.save("AnimExample_out.pptx", SaveFormat.Pptx);
} finally {
    if (pres != null) pres.dispose();
}

Get the Animation Effects Applied to Shape

You may decide to find out the all animation effects applied to a single shape.

This Java code shows you how to get the all effects applied to a specific shape:

// Instantiates a presentation class that represents a presentation file.
Presentation pres = new Presentation("AnimExample_out.pptx");
try {
    ISlide firstSlide = pres.getSlides().get_Item(0);

    // Gets the main sequence of the slide.
    ISequence sequence = firstSlide.getTimeline().getMainSequence();

    // Gets the first shape on slide.
    IShape shape = firstSlide.getShapes().get_Item(0);

    // Gets all animation effects applied to the shape.
    IEffect[] shapeEffects = sequence.getEffectsByShape(shape);

    if (shapeEffects.length > 0)
        System.out.println("The shape " + shape.getName() + " has " + shapeEffects.length + " animation effects.");
} finally {
    if (pres != null) pres.dispose();
}

Change Animation Effect Timing Properties

Aspose.Slides for Java allows you to change the Timing properties of an animation effect.

This is the Animation Timing pane in Microsoft PowerPoint:

These are the correspondences between PowerPoint Timing and Effect.Timing properties:

• PowerPoint Timing Start drop-down list matches the Effect.Timing.TriggerType property.
• PowerPoint Timing Duration matches the Effect.Timing.Duration property. The duration of an animation (in seconds) is the total time it takes the animation to complete one cycle.
• PowerPoint Timing Delay matches the Effect.Timing.TriggerDelayTime property.

This is how you change the Effect Timing properties:

1. Apply or get the animation effect.
2. Set new values for the Effect.Timing properties you need.
3. Save the modified PPTX file.

This Java code demonstrates the operation:

// Instantiates a presentation class that represents a presentation file.
Presentation pres = new Presentation("AnimExample_out.pptx");
try {
    // Gets the main sequence of the slide.
    ISequence sequence = pres.getSlides().get_Item(0).getTimeline().getMainSequence();

    // Gets the first effect of main sequence.
    IEffect effect = sequence.get_Item(0);

    // Changes effect TriggerType to start on click
    effect.getTiming().setTriggerType(EffectTriggerType.OnClick);

    // Changes effect Duration
    effect.getTiming().setDuration(3f);

    // Changes effect TriggerDelayTime
    effect.getTiming().setTriggerDelayTime(0.5f);

    // Saves the PPTX file to disk
    pres.save("AnimExample_changed.pptx", SaveFormat.Pptx);
} finally {
    if (pres != null) pres.dispose();
}