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How to: Apply Animations to Text |
03/30/2017 |
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Learn how to apply animations to text in order to alter the display and appearance of text in an application. |
Animations can alter the display and appearance of text in your application. The following examples use different types of animations to affect the display of text in a xref:System.Windows.Controls.TextBlock control.
The following example uses a xref:System.Windows.Media.Animation.DoubleAnimation to animate the width of the text block. The width value changes from the width of the text block to 0 over a duration of 10 seconds, and then reverses the width values and continues. This type of animation creates a wipe effect.
[!code-xamlTextAnimationSample#TextAnimationSample1]
The following example uses a xref:System.Windows.Media.Animation.DoubleAnimation to animate the opacity of the text block. The opacity value changes from 1.0 to 0 over a duration of 5 seconds, and then reverses the opacity values and continues.
[!code-xamlTextAnimationSample#TextAnimationSample2]
The following diagram shows the effect of the xref:System.Windows.Controls.TextBlock control changing its opacity from 1.00 to 0.00 during the 5-second interval defined by the xref:System.Windows.Media.Animation.Timeline.Duration%2A.
The following example uses a xref:System.Windows.Media.Animation.ColorAnimation to animate the foreground color of the text block. The foreground color value changes from one color to a second color over a duration of 5 seconds, and then reverses the color values and continues.
[!code-xamlTextAnimationSample#TextAnimationSample3]
The following example uses a xref:System.Windows.Media.Animation.DoubleAnimation to rotate the text block. The text block performs a full rotation over a duration of 20 seconds, and then continues to repeat the rotation.
[!code-xamlTextAnimationSample#TextAnimationSample4]