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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>I finished updating the new TclTk animation module and committed it to the cvs. It does pretty much what xganim did, but with somewhat nicer interface. It also has several important improvements over xganim.<BR>
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Enter up to 4 animation series "views", following same format used by xganim <BR>
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rast[1-n],rast2[1-n],...<BR>
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where rast[1-n] refers to raster maps rast1,rast2,rast3,...,rastn<BR>
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You can also enter maps in the format, not supported by xganim<BR>
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rast1,rast2,rast3,...,rastn<BR>
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An important improvement is that xganim currently will only actually work with a series of 10 maps, rast[0-9]. Because it seek only individual characters at the end of each map in the series, it cannot recognize numbers higher than the numerals 0-9. That is 11 is simply two ones. The TclTk animator WILL recognize these as numbers, so that you can animate a series of maps limited only by system capabilities.<BR>
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As with xganim, single animation series will be displayed to fill the TclTk canvas window; a multi-view animation (up to 4 views) will divide the canvas into 4 subwindows with an animation series in each subwindow. Up to 4 simultaneous animations can be run.<BR>
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Another improvement over xganim is that you can animate series with different numbers of frames simutaneously (e.g., a multi-view animation with a 100 frame animation in one subwindow and a 20 frame animation in another subwindow).<BR>
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I'm not sure if the labels are working properly yet, but everything else seems to be. Give it a try and let me know if you run into any snags. <BR>
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Michael<BR>
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Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology<BR>
Director of Graduate Studies<BR>
School of Human Evolution & Social Change <BR>
Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity<BR>
Arizona State University<BR>
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phone: 480-965-6213<BR>
fax: 480-965-7671<BR>
www: <a href="http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton">http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton</a> <BR>
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