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Overview of CA 2E Animation

CA 2E animation provides a direct link between CA 2E and the Toolkit prototyping facilities. Toolkit is a set of implementation, support, and system utilities that include menu design, panel design, prototyping, documentation aids, and object list processing.CA 2E animation lets you transfer control to Toolkit, where you can interactively simulate your CA 2E panel designs, and then easily return to CA 2E.

You can animate a function before you make any changes to its default action diagram. This lets you thoroughly test your device design before you commit to specific programming logic, which is more difficult and time-consuming to change. In addition, you do not need to generate and compile a function before you animate it.

For example, you can use animation to demonstrate a proposed design to end users for their review and approval. You can immediately implement any suggestions for improvement of the device design using the CA 2E Device Design Editor and then return to Toolkit to demonstrate the updated design. You can repeat this process until you are satisfied with the design. At that point, you can begin editing the action diagram to implement your design.