CS5 (and/or 5.5) - animation question

Hi everyone! I have a problem that I just can't seem to work out and hoping some clever person out there will know an answer
I have put together an example of what I am trying to do:
I have 5 objects (the blue rectangles) that I wish to appear in sequence. To do this I selected each object and applied the standard "appear" animation option to each object. (see SCREEN_1 below).
Then I created a button (the pink circle) and added the animations to the button and set them to play (SCREEN_2).
After all the rectangles have appeared, I want them all to disappear so I grouped the rectangles and then chose 'disappear" from the animation options and applied it to the group (SCREEN_3)
And then added this new group animation to the button so it would play after the earlier animations that made the rectangles appear. (SCREEN_4)
Then I previewed my animation - the pink start button starts the animation and it previews (and exports to swf) fine and looks as I want
BUT ONLY ON THE FIRST VIEWING!
If I push the pink start button again, it doesn't play correctly (there is a delay and then the group just appears all at once) . And I CANNOT work out why! And have tried for so long to work this out but am COMPLETELY stumped.
I basically want the animation (rectangles to appear and then disappear after) to repeat everytime the pink start button.
Can anyone out there help?!
Thanking you very much in advance!
Lisa

hi again!
this is weird!
I had the same problem, but I figured it out, here's how:
1. do not group the rectangles
2. select all the rectangles and give them the animation you want (pic1)
3. make sure "Hide Until Animated" is checked
4. make a button from your circle and animate each rectangle like pic2
5. after doing that, do it aigain! make 5 more actions (animate) in your button panel but choose "REVERSE" at "options" (pic3)
6. at the timing panel, link the last 5 animations (the ones you choose to reverse)
7. that did the trick for me: http://www.jocstone.be/test/testje.html
8. let me know if it works?
9. sorry if my english is not always correct

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I too agree with the points Mylenium stated. We have discussed about multiple computers (desktop & laptop), but people don't like the mess it would cause in terms of file syncronization etc. And it would also mean double effort for the IT to maintain all the software updates etc. in that many computers. We do work quite a lot in meetings etc. and work and collaborate directly with using these programs. So it would mean double work to first make notes in a meeting and then do work in another computer according to the notes. So the decision of using a good laptop is not random but thought.
Our current laptops were selected in the CS2 era and they have survived well updates up to CS4. I haven't yet tested what CS5.5 would do in terms of performance and usability. The idea of changing and configuring a computer every year according to the latest models and software requirements does not sound good. That's why I stated the point that the computer to be selected should survive at least a few CS updates.
SSDs. I don't see them pricely at all. We've changed SSDs to the current laptops and they increased their lifetime by at least two years. Incredible increase in speed! I really do recommend SSDs and would not even consider using mechanical drives anymore. In general I don't see the price of the laptop as problem -- it costs a lot more to configure and install the computer than the price of the computer. And if the computer is slow and/or needs to be changed often to a new model, it costs even more in lost employee performance.
So conclusion up to now:
- Win 7 64 bit
- 8 GB memory
- SSD drive
- min i5 processor
- Graphics card? Mobile Quadro NVS 3100M?
So the current computer model could be:
Dell E6410
- Intel Core™ i7-640M
- NVIDIA® NVS 3100M 512MB gDDR3
- 14.1” WXGA+ LED Display (1440x900)
- 8 GB dual channel DDR3 memory, 1 333 MHZ
- 128 GB SSD

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