Animating Tiles View

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What does this view do?

The animating tiles view can be used to create small animations using the tiles in the tile set set as frames.
Each animating tile occupies one row in the animating tiles view. The frames of the animating tiles are shown in columns at the right of the animating tile.
You can select an animating tile, the tile will then become a 1 by 1 block which can be copied to a layer in the Layer View.

The Animating Tiles Toolbar

| Delete Button Delete the selection. You should first select an animating tile or frame. If nothing is selected, pressing the Delete button does nothing.
| Help button Press this button to display the help you are reading now.

Keys in the Animating Tiles view

| Clone current animating tile. First select an animating tile, then press C to create a copy of this animating tile at the end of the list.

| Delete the selection. First select an animating tile, then press Delete to delete the animating tile or frame. If an animating tile is selected when deleting, the animating tiles after the current animating tile will move up.

Mouse Controls

You can use the mouse to select frames or animating tile in the animating tiles view. When this frame is empty, it will show one dark-colored tile, which is the placeholder for a new animating tile. You can select it by clicking on it, which will invert its color to show it is selected.
You can add frames to an animating tile by selecting the desired animating and then, while holding down the CTRL key on the keyboard, click on tiles in the tiles view that should be added as frames.
When an animating tile (not one of its frames) is selected in the animating tiles view, pressing the right mouse button will bring up the tile's animating tiles properties, such as animation speed, ping-pong loop, etc.