Animation in FXD file - How to start several timelines simultaneously

Question

I have a slide show of different FXZ files. Each with it's own animations defined in the contained FXD file.
As each FXD file contains different animations for different object and what not, how can I simply trigger all animations to execute at once?
So far I am using:
var action = fxdContent.getObject("moveCircle") as Timeline;
action.play();But say for example, I have three animations in my FXD -> "moveCircle", "moveSquare", "moveLine" how can I initiate them all at once?
Thanks.

Answer 1

If you want to start several parallel transitions simultaneously, you should use the class javafx.animation.transition.ParallelTransition to do it. It can be defined either in directly in FXD content
FXD {
        actions: [
            ParallelTransition {
                id: "main"
                content: [
                    Timeline {
                        id: "animation1"
                        repeatCount: 1
                        autoReverse: false
                        keyFrames: [
                            KeyFrame {
                                time: 3000
                                values: [ KeyValue { target: #rect.x value: 40} ]
                    Timeline {
                        id: "animation2"
                        repeatCount: 1
                        autoReverse: false
                        keyFrames: [
                            KeyFrame {
                                time: 3000
                                values: [ KeyValue { target: #rect1.y value: 200} ]
     content: [
            Rectangle {
                id: "rect"
                x: 10
                y: 11
                width: 40
                height: 40
                fill: Color.RED               
            Rectangle {
                id: "rect1"
                x: 50
                y: 50
                width: 40
                height: 40
                fill: Color.GREEN
}or can be in the JavaFX Script code, for example
var main = ParallelTransition {
        content: [
           fxdContent.getObject("moveCircle") as Timeline,
           fxdContent.getObject("moveSquare") as Timeline,
           fxdContent.getObject("moveLine") as Timeline
    }the parallel transition is then simply started by the play() method.