Draw Direct Shape Text - Animations

Shapes can have their text animated. The dialog for this is seen in Shape Text Animation Dialog.

OooDev has several classes for working with the animation of shapes. The classes are:

Here is an example of setting the animation of a shape:

Setup

from __future__ import annotations
import uno

from ooodev.draw import Draw, DrawDoc, ZoomKind
from ooodev.loader.lo import Lo
from ooodev.format.draw.direct.text.animation import ScrollBackForth
from ooodev.format.draw.direct.text.animation import TextAnimationDirection


def main() -> int:
    with Lo.Loader(connector=Lo.ConnectSocket()):
        doc = DrawDoc(Draw.create_draw_doc())
        doc.set_visible()
        Lo.delay(700)
        doc.zoom(ZoomKind.ZOOM_75_PERCENT)

        slide = doc.get_slide()

        width = 50
        height = 50
        x = 10
        y = 10

        rect = slide.draw_rectangle(x=x, y=y, width=width, height=height)
        cursor = rect.get_shape_text_cursor()
        cursor.append_para("Hello World!")

        txt_scroll_back = ScrollBackForth(
            start_inside=True,
            visible_on_exit=True,
            increment=0.6,
            delay=350,
            direction=TextAnimationDirection.UP,
            count=6,
        )
        txt_scroll_back.apply(rect.component)

        Lo.delay(1_000)
        doc.close_doc()
    return 0


if __name__ == "__main__":
    raise SystemExit(main())

Get Shape Text Animation

We can get the text animation of the shape by using the .from_obj() method of the animation class.

from ooodev.format.draw.direct.text.animation import ScrollBackForth
# ... other code

f_style = ScrollBackForth.from_obj(rect.component)
assert f_style.prop_delay == 350