Tweaking Storyboards with Timeline Properties
A Storyboard
is more than just a simple container that associates animations with target objects and their properties. Because Storyboard
derives from Timeline
, it has many of the same properties discussed previously: Duration
, BeginTime
, SpeedRatio
, AutoReverse
, RepeatBehavior
, and FillBehavior
(and the Completed
event).
The following Storyboard
fades one TextBlock
in and out at a time, for an effect somewhat like that of a movie trailer. The Storyboard
itself is marked with a RepeatBehavior
to make the entire sequence of animation repeat indefinitely. Figure 19.8 shows how this is rendered at three different spots of the sequence:
<Page ...> <Page.Resources> <
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