A couple svg questions

[jonkjon]

1.) Where/how in the svg do you control the initial state of a focus icon?

2.) I have one focus icon that takes just a little longer to display than all the others in my theme. I have parsed the svg file yet I cannot find any difference in that theme button's animation versus all the rest. I notice that there are about 36 different animation sequences for focusin, focusout, and activate. Why are there so many different animation sequences generated by composer?

Thanks in advance.....

[mastamoon]

You can hide that icon at frame one in the timeline actions menu in composer. Click the closed eye and pick your focus icon, click the closed eye again, pick ur next focus icon from the drop down... Etc etc..

You have to change it to an animation first though by right clicking the image and selecting convert to animation.

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[jonkjon]

Thanks for the reply. I did do that to hide the initial state. I just don't see where in the svg,
generated by composer, that gets written.

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[mastamoon]

I'd say do a search for begin="0"

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[jonkjon]

Originally Posted by mastamoon

I'd say do a search for begin="0"

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Thanks again for that. However, there is nothing related to the focus icon with that listed.....This one really has me stumped!

[StaticFX]

Composer adds tons of unneeded code. I found that coding it from scratch is much cleaner and smaller filesize

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[jonkjon]

Thanks for everyone's input on this. I was able to hand code what I needed. I'm not adept enough yet to eliminate too much of Composer's work but I will figure out what I can trim out over time.....thanks again.

[mastamoon]

Now that I looked through my SVG for this focus icon on/off thing, I see what its doing and will be much easier to do this manually than in composer. No turning focus icons into animations or anything like that..

<set xlink:href="#focus_png_1" attributeName="display" to="none" begin="0"/>
<set xlink:href="#focus_png_1" attributeName="display" to="inline" begin="Theme_Button_3.focusin"/>
<set xlink:href="#focus_png_1" attributeName="display" to="none" begin="Theme_Button_3.focusout"/>

<set xlink:href="#focus_png_1_copy" attributeName="display" to="none" begin="0"/>
<set xlink:href="#focus_png_1_copy" attributeName="display" to="inline" begin="Theme_Button_3_copy.focusin"/>
<set xlink:href="#focus_png_1_copy" attributeName="display" to="none" begin="Theme_Button_3_copy.focusout"/>

Makes focus image turn on/off on focus in/out.. also hides the icon when the theme is first loaded (frame 1, begin="0").

[jonkjon]

That's what I discovered too. I wasn't too certain if I could dispose of all the animate stuff but I think you can so longs as you don't want to do any fade effects for the focus icons.

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[mastamoon]

Also comparing my manual method vs using composer to do it, saved 12 lines of code in the SVG. Theme I am working on has 20 buttons with focus icons.. so if you save 6 lines of code for every button.. that's 120 lines of code difference. Substantial.

[mastamoon]

Originally Posted by jonkjon

That's what I discovered too. I wasn't too certain if I could dispose of all the animate stuff but I think you can so longs as you don't want to do any fade effects for the focus icons.

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So you can pull all of the:

<animate xlink:href="#img_31_1_36" id="_anim_57" attributeName="visibility"
        values="hidden;hidden"
        keyTimes="0;1"
        dur="0.45s" fill="freeze"
    />
    <animate xlink:href="#img_21_1_35" id="_anim_53" attributeName="visibility"
        values="hidden;hidden"
        keyTimes="0;1"
        dur="0.45s" fill="freeze"
    />
    <animate xlink:href="#img_11_1_34" id="_anim_49" attributeName="visibility"
        values="hidden;hidden"
        keyTimes="0;1"
        dur="0.45s" fill="freeze"

code out also without any detrimental effects? Unless of course your doing some sort of fade in/out.