How to Control the Animation

When the real time clock is running, you cannot perform any of the animation functions. Before using the animation features, you must ensure that the Animation option is chosen at the top right of the screen.

If this is a multiwheel animation, and includes a fixed natal chart that has stored life events, then it is possible to select any life event from a list to set the animation time and date automatically.

>> To set the time and date to that of a stored life event

•Click on the Events button, and select one of the events from the Event Selection dialog box.

The "Auto Apply" checkbox is ticked by default, which means as you click on any life event to select it, the date of the event will automatically be reflected in the wheels outside the inner wheel. To prevent this from happening untick the Auto Apply checkbox by clicking in it.

Note: You can also add new life events from this dialog if you wish.

>> To set the time and date to a particular value

•Enter new values directly into the date and time boxes.

(See Entering a Date and Entering a Time for details on acceptable formats for dates and times). Depending on whether you want Daylight Savings to be accounted for when stepping through time then make sure the Auto DLS checkbox is ticked/unticked (repeatedly clicking in the checkbox toggles it between ticked and unticked).

>> To set the time step interval

1.In the Step By drop-down box, select one of the pre-defined time intervals.

2.Optionally enter a numeric multiple into the box immediately to the left.

For example, to specify a 5 minute interval, select the “Minutes” item from the list, and then enter the value 5.

>> To run the chart through time

1.The left and right arrows will start the animation running backward or forward in time respectively, with the display being recalculated at the specified intervals.

2.Click on the red square Stop button to halt the animation.

>> To step the chart forward or backward

•The left and right arrows with the adjacent vertical bars will step the animation backward or forward in time respectively, one step for each mouse click.

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•Alternatively, after ensuring that the displayed wheel or page has the focus (by clicking on it), you can use the left or right arrow keys to step back or forward with one step per keypress.

>> To change the rate of animation

•Use the mouse to slide the Animation Speed control left or right.

When at its leftmost position, this will attempt to update the display as often as the power of your computer will allow. When moved further right, the display is only updated after a fixed interval of time has elapsed. If your computer is not a very recent, powerful model, you may wish to leave this control at or near its fastest setting. If your computer is especially powerful, you may prefer to choose a slower setting so that the animation does not run overly fast.

>> To reset the date and time to now

1.Click on the Clock option button – this will reset the date and time to match your computer’s system clock, and the timezone of the first displayed chart. Note that this means that the displayed time and date will be correct for the location of the chart according to its timezone, and may therefore be different from your current local time, but the planetary zodiacal positions will still be the correct ones for the current instant.

2.If you wish to animate again from this date and time, then click on the Animation option button.