Use Zoom area for basic (linear) animation -- A-ha moment!

No question here; and, sorry if you already know this; but, had to share...
I've been lamenting that I couldn't -- easily -- get things to move around within a given slide in Captivate. It's easy enough to have things fade in and out using transitions; and, to use Flash (assuming you have access to that) to create and importing your own animations.
But, wouldn't it be nice to have, say, an image be on the screen and have it move from one place to another, and be able to watch it move? And to do it relatively easily?
Well, I had an A-ha! moment today -- creative use of the Zoom area.
Place 2 instances of "imageA" on the slide, at the desired start and stop locations. Let's call them imageA-start and imageA-stop
Insert a Zoom Area.
Modify the zoom area's properties (by double-clicking on both the start and destination areas) so that:
Start Area:
Set the frame width to 0 (so you don't seen any outlines as the image moves across the screen)
Use "no transition"
Destination Area:
Set frame width to 0
Click on "Select image..." and navigate to/select imageA again. This will fill the zoom area's destination area with imageA, which is what you will see "zoom" across the slide
Ensure that both the zoom area's start and destination panes are the same size as imageA-start and -stop, respectively.
Place the zoom area's start pane on top of imageA's start location
Place the zoom area's destination pane on top of imageA's stop location
Adjust the time line to that they go: ImageA-Start|zoom area|imageA-stop --- butting up right next to each other. May need to have the zoom area overlap imageA-stop by a tenth of a second.
Preview it and you should see your imageA slide across the screen more-or-less seamlessly. You'll probably find you need to tweak the size of imageA-stop and/or zoom's destination area. The latter's size properties include an untweakable margin between the destination area's borders and the inserted image
You can even get a bit more creative: make imageA-stop be a bit bigger than imageA-start, and just be sure that the destination area is the same size.
You can adjust the slider in the middle of the zoom area to tweak how quickly the image will zoom.
So, this will allow you to slide an image across the screen. Limited to linear movement and maybe not so sexy -- but, better than what I could do yesterday (without going to Flash, that is)!
If any of you have had your own A-ha! moments, please share!
Joe

Hi Joe
I've done that as well in a similar fashion. Just use the insert image function of the zoom area without inserting the image actually on the slide as an Image object. Ensure both the zoom area and zoom destination are sized identically (easily done by selecting both and using the sizing options on the context menu)
I'm guessing by saying you may only zoom linearly you meant in a straight line from point A to point B. This is true in that you can't define a "motion path" as you can in Flash. (I know enough about Flash to be dangerous). What that seems to infer though is that perhaps you may only move horizontally from right to left or left to right. But the points may also be diagonal or wherever you need them.
Cheers... Rick
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