include *specific frame number* in beamer presentaton (without using framenumber for the frame definition)

Question

I have a beamer presentation. In one of the slides, I would like to include a fancy tikz graphic that makes heave use of \only<>. I would like to include only a specific frame number of that slide, say k-j.

I am fully aware that you can simply use \begin{frame}<n-m>. However, this does not do the trick! This only works if the that slide does not make use of other frame numbers. Then, I could of course simply use \begin{frame}<k-j>. But if the frame itself uses further \only<> commands, then this obviously does not work anymore. Here is a MWE:

  \documentclass{beamer}
  \usepackage{tikz}

  \begin{document}

  \begin{frame}
    \begin{itemize}[<+->]
      \item point 1
      \item point 2; here I would like to include frame number 4 of a fancy tikz picture:\\
      \input{someGraphic.tikz}
      \item point 3
    \end{itemize}
  \end{frame}

  \end{document}

  % content of the file someGraphic.tikz:

  \begin{tikzpicture}
  \node<1> {node on frame 1};
  \node<2> {node on frame 2};
  \node<3> {node on frame 3};
  \node<4> {node on frame 4};
  \node<5> {node on frame 5};
  \node<6> {node on frame 6};
  \end{tikzpicture}

I would thus need to tell the import command to use frame 4 of the imported picture, but I did not find such a possibility. Does it exist?

Answer 1

Would this do the job?

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{tikz}

\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{someGraphic.tikz}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\node<1> {node on frame 1};
\node<2> {node on frame 2};
\node<3> {node on frame 3};
\node<4> {node on frame 4};
\node<5> {node on frame 5};
\node<6> {node on frame 6};
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{filecontents*}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}<1,4,7>
  \begin{itemize}[<+->]
    \item point 1
    \item poiant 2; here I would like to include frame number 4 of a fancy tikz picture:\\
    \input{someGraphic.tikz}
    \item<7> point 3
  \end{itemize}
\end{frame}

\end{document}

Alternatively you could use the standalone class to precompile your image and then just include the 4th page as image.