MX

Groups
Groups are treated specially when creating animations. To save you naming each individual part of a
group, you can instead name the whole group and then copy the group to the next keyframe. Web
Designer MX Premium will animate the whole group from one keyframe to the next. And you can apply
the normal transformations to the group (resize, rotate, squash, but not group transparency ? see the next
page).
If members of a group are to animate differently than the rest of the group, then those members must be
separately named ("Ctrl + click" to select an object inside a group, then name it as usual).
Note:
If you ungroup, make some changes to the group contents and then re-group the objects:
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You must re-apply the name to the new group (select the group then double click on the name in
the Name Gallery).
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You must not change the stacking order of the items in the group.
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You must not add or remove items to/from the group.
Group Transparency
If you want to fade a grouped object, you need to apply transparency to each individual object in the
group. There are two ways you can do this:

Select each object in the group in turn and adjust its transparency.
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Or un-check the Make Groups Transparent as a Whole option in the Options dialog ("
Utilities" > "Options", then the General tab). If you do this, when you adjust the transparency
of the whole group Web Designer MX Premium applies the transparency to each individual item
in the group, instead of group transparency.
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