Manage Frames

A moving picture in GIF format, which is made up of a series of frames. When displayed, they provide an animated sequence that cycles over and over without stopping.

The Frames List appears as part of the EximiousSoft Banner Maker interface and appears at the bottom of the program. It lists all the image frames contained in the animated banner from left to right. At the same time, Banner Maker provides many powerful functions to manage and organize the frame image and all the objects contained in each frame.

Select Frame

Usually an animation banner contains multiple image frames. If you need to edit or modify a frame, the first thing you need to do is to select it. When a frame is selected, it is highlighted by the yellow color in Frames List Window. For example,see the following screenshots. The frame #1 is selected, but frame #2 is not.

Selected Frame	Unselected Frame

EximiousSoft Banner Maker allows that the multiple frames can be selected at the same time. use the standard Windows multiple-selection shortcuts of Ctrl+Click and Shift+Click.

• Click: click the left mouse button on the frame which you desire to choose it in the Frames List Window, then the previous selected frames become unselected, and the clicked frame is selected.
• Click + Shift: press the Shift key and keep it down, click the left mouse button on the frame which you desire to choose in the Frames List Window, then Banner Maker will select a group of connected frames.
• Click + Ctrl: press the Ctrl key and keep it down, click the left mouse button on the frame which you desire to operate in the Frames List Window. If the frame is selected, then it will be become unselected, otherwise it is selected after click.

Add Frame

Click "Create a Blank Frame" tool buton on toolbar ot create a new, blank frame that is inserted into the banner animation and placed after the previous edit frame. After that, the new frame is selected for being edited but other frames become unselected. The new frame has nothing at first. You can paste any drawing objects from clipboard or insert shapes or images into it manually.

Add Frame(s) From Image File(s)

Click "Add Frame(s) From Image File(s)" tool buton on toolbar, This enables to load one or more external image files and make each single picture which is included these files as a frame to be inserted into the banner animation.

This feature opens Windows file dialog which prompts you to select the desired image files in the list control. The standard Windows multiple-selection shortcuts of Ctrl + Click or Shift + Click can be applied. Press OK button after done selection, all new loaded frames will be inserted after the frame which is being edited in the Workspace.

Duplicate Frame(s)

Click "Duplicate the Selected Frame(s)" tool buton on toolbar, all selected frames are duplicated. but all of them have not been copied to clipboard. The new copied frames inserted after the frame which is last selected in Frames List.

Delete Frame(s)

Click "Delete the Selected Frame(s)" tool buton on toolbar, a message box is opened to prompt you to confirm deleting the selected frames. Click "Yes" button to continue, but click "No" button to cancel.

If only a frame is included for banner animation, To delete it which make the frame transparency fully. In actually, only all objects for the last frame are deleted instead. Why is it done like this? because EximiousSoft Banner Maker can not tolerate no frame is included for banner project opened.

Reverse Order

• Reverse order of all selected frames: That is, the original first selected frame in animation is last selected one; the original selected second frame in animation becomes the penultimate selected one, and so on.., This feature is enabled when more than one frame are selected.
• Reverse order of all frames: That is, the original first frame in animation is last selected one; the original second frame in animation becomes the penultimate one, and so on... This feature is enabled when more than one frame contains in the animated banner.

Change Order

• Move To First Frame: all selected frames are moved forward, until the front selected frame is moved to first position.
• Move To Last Frame: all selected frames are moved backward, until the back selected frame is moved to last position.
• Move To Previous Frame: All selected frames are moved forward one frame position.
• Move To Next Frame: All selected frames are moved backward one frame position.

Make Equal Delay

Click "Make Equal Delay" tool buton on toolbar, the dialog box is shown as following:

• Delay: The duration that frame is displayed on the screen, in increments of 1/100th of a second. The available delay is allowed to vary from 0 to 32767.
• All Selected Frames: the new delay value is used to set for all selected frames. If no frame is selected,this option shown as disable.
• All Frames: the new delay value is used to set for all frames.

Change Properties of a Frame

Click "Change Frame's Properties" tool buton on toolbar, the dialog box is shown as following:

• Delay: The duration that frame is displayed on the screen, in increments of 1/100th of a second. The available delay is allowed to vary from 0 to 32767.
• Interlace: Interlacing is a method for storing a GIF image so that it can be displayed progressively as it is downloaded; it does not significantly affect the size of the GIF file and depending on the displaying browser may be ignored for all but the first image in an animation. It's a good idea to avoid interlacing within an animation.