Drag on a single axis

[StephanZA (Stephan)]

Hi Guys,

I have looked but can’t find an answer to this. I would like to be able to drag an item up and down but needs to keep it fixed left and right.

Any help please

[MarkHunte]

You can give the element a starting Origin (Top) and an end Origin (Top) on a timeline. Then in the Actions -> On Drag, use the control timeline. Axis = Vertical , continue Drag unchecked.

[StephanZA (Stephan)]

Thank you so much. That worked.

Another question on this. If I want the same item to not only be dragged up and down but on click it must move up and on click again must move down, how would I do that.

IE. I want to be able to drag and click the item to perform up and down motion

[MarkHunte]

Have a look at this.

How to make a Single Toggle Button

I have noticed that many people struggle to work out how to make a toggle button that uses a single Timeline. Many get tripped up by putting a Pause timeline at the beginning of the timeline when wanting to use reverse timeline. The animations either don’t start, take two clicks to start or just repeat … Here is an Example of how to do it simply and with only one Timeline. Note I do not use start Timeline anywhere… especially in the Buttons Actions. This is another mistake that people fall …

[StephanZA (Stephan)]

Thank you, If I am totally honest, it worked but I have no clue why.

Any possibility you can explain the reasoning behind each step so I can clarify in my head how and why it works?

[MarkHunte]

It is all there in the diagram…

But basically .

The timeline animation :

First click:
continues up to the first keyframe action, pause timeline (00:00.18).

Second click:
continues from (00:00.18) , i.e it now goes past (00:00.18) and then at next keyframe action (00:00.20), it jumps back to (00:00.18) and then starts playing the timeline in reverse.

[StephanZA (Stephan)]

Thank you