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Animated objects are customized user interface (UI) widgets for applications, such as digital cockpits or dashboards, label generation, and specialized UI and report components, which you can use without applets or other controls.

Features

The Animated Object editor in the SAP MII Workbench is based on Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), an XML-based format for representing vector drawings. Most Web drawing packages allow you to save as SVG format. SVG scales without deteriorating the image. When you use the image at runtime, you can override the default size.

The system allows you to do the following:

  • Take an SVG document and animate it.

  • Take drawing elements in an SVG document and link live data such as numbers, fill levels, size, colors, rotation (dials) to text.

  • Combine complex expressions and simple data value links.

To link external, or dynamic data, you must define transaction properties. You link these properties to SVG document elements and/or attribute values.

To transform SVG files and animated objects into image files, use the SVG Renderer and Animation Renderer actions.