You can use the properties in the Fill group (on the Animations window) to animate the fill area of the Mimic object. The fill area is the inner part of a shape, text box, and so on.
You can animate the following Fill properties:
- Blink—Defines whether the flash feature is on or off.
- FillColour—The color that fills the area of the object.
- FillAlpha—The level of transparency for the FillColour.
- FlashFillAlpha—The level of transparency for the FlashFillColour.
- FlashFillColour—The alternate FillColour used with a flash effect.
- FlashGradAlpha—The level of transparency for the FlashGradColour.
- FlashGradColour—The second alternate color used with a 3 color flash effect.
- Flash Mode—Defines the type of flash that is being used.
- FlashOffset—This is not designed for use as an animation.
- GradAlpha—The level of transparency for the GradColour.
- GradAngle—The angle of the gradient shading.
- GradColour—The color of the gradient shading (on objects that have gradient shading).
- GradXPos—The horizontal position of the gradient shading.
- GradYPos—The vertical position of the gradient shading.
- Hatch—Defines the type of hatch shading that is used when the Type is set to Hatch.
- Type—Defines the type of fill that is applied to the Mimic object.
If you are animating the flash colors, the animations will only take effect if the Mimic object has the Blink property animated (or the Blink feature enabled on the object's Properties window, for example on a rectangle's Polyline Properties window).