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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: kpresenter - assigning effects
From:       Brad Hards <bhards () bigpond ! net ! au>
Date:       2001-11-04 11:30:42
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Toshitaka Fujioka wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday 30 October 2001 20:06, Brad Hards wrote:
> > G'day all,
> >
> > I am having trouble figuring out what the "Number" entries are supposed to
> > do in KPresenter's Assign Effect dialogs (both Appear and Disappear
> > sections). I have the combo boxes figured out, and the Number sections seem
> > to be related to how much of the selected object is affected, but I don't
> > have it clear in my mind. I am especially confused by the setting of zero.
> >
> > Can anyone explain this for me?
> 
> This number is the order that object appears or disappears.
> Please set value in some object and execute a screen presentation.
Thanks. The trick was to assign different values to the different objects on
the screen. I was only assigning a value to the main text box, and nothing
seemed to happen. I have this clear (and partly documented) now.

Can I suggest that the current approach is not very intuitive? A better
approach might be to label this as Order of Appearance / Order of
Disappearance. A further enhancement would be to change 0 to "when slide
appears", 1 to "first", 2 to "second", 3 to "third" and so on; and to add a
selection of "last". The underlying representation probably doesn't need to
change, but this would be more easily understood.

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