Creating an Animated Progress Meter in Fireworks ![[This article includes Camtasia Video Tutorial segments]](/images/camtasia.gif)
By: Jim Babbage on Thursday, September 23, 2004
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I've seen a few requests out there, in various forums, on how to make an animated progress meter and thought it would be a nifty little tutorial for beginners in Fireworks. A progress bar can be used while a large image is downloading, indicating to the user that something is indeed happening and hopefully encouraging the user to wait for the download to be completed.
This type of animation is not tied to the real download process; it's just an animated GIF image. Using Layers in Dreamweaver, we can make that image visible until the real image downloads to the user's system. Then it will disappear. We're going to create a three different progress meters: one very simple example, and two using some of FW's handy animation effects. In one animation, we will tween the opacity of a glow. In the other we will create a motion animation.
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