I have the following code which uses animateinline and several tikzpicture for it's animation effects:
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{ifthen}
\usepackage{animate}
\usetheme{Warsaw}
\usecolortheme{whale}
\def\layera{
\path[cm={{0.8028232,-0.59621716,0.59621716,0.8028232,(0.0,0.0)}},draw=black,opacity=0.990,miter
limit=4.00,line width=0.943pt,rounded corners=0.0000cm] (-99.8372,584.6912)
rectangle (-30.7483,653.7801);
}
\def\layerb{
\fill[blue!40] (0,0) circle (1);
}
\def\layerc{
\fill[red!40] (0,0) circle (1);
}
\begin{document}
\begin{center}
\begin{frame}
\begin{animateinline}[loop,controls]{1}
\begin{tikzpicture}[y=0.20pt,x=0.20pt,yscale=-1, inner sep=0pt, outer sep=0pt]
\layera{}
\end{tikzpicture}
\newframe
\begin{tikzpicture}[y=0.20pt,x=0.20pt,yscale=-1, inner sep=0pt, outer sep=0pt]
\layerb{}
\end{tikzpicture}
\newframe
\begin{tikzpicture}[y=0.20pt,x=0.20pt,yscale=-1, inner sep=0pt, outer sep=0pt]
\layerc{}
\end{tikzpicture}
\newcommand{\makelayer}{
\newframe
\begin{tikzpicture}[y=0.20pt,x=0.20pt,yscale=-1, inner sep=0pt, outer sep=0pt]
\layerc{}
\end{tikzpicture}
}
%\makelayer{}
%\def\MyLayers{\layerb, \layerc}
%\foreach \mylayer in \MyLayers {
% \newframe
% \begin{tikzpicture}[y=0.20pt,x=0.20pt,yscale=-1, inner sep=0pt, outer sep=0pt]
% \mylayer{}
% \end{tikzpicture}
%}
\end{animateinline}
\end{frame}
\end{center}
\end{document}
As you can see, it has 3 layers (1 layer/frame): layera, layerb and layerc. The following file could be converted to pdf and the animation effects are correct: a square, then a blue circle, and a red circle.
However, when I try to use \newcommand makelayer, the output is not correct: just uncomment \makelayer{} and compile to pdf. The strange thing is layerb is not shown correctly, instead of layerc, which is inside \makelayer{}?
It must be something obvious for a trained eye; could someone kindly point out what is the correct way of using \newcommand in this case?
The second question is looping through all the tikzpictures, and I think it might be related to the above question. I have also have the code that's not working commented out, starting at: %\def\MyLayers{\layerb, \layerc}
Any help is much appreciated.
Edit1
@Harish's answer solved the first question.
To clarify my second question, which is how to loop through the contents of each tikzpicture using foreach or any other looping mechanism? I made some changes to the code to illustrate the question (the actual tex file may contain many more layers/tikzpicture ):
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{ifthen}
\usepackage{animate}
\usetheme{Warsaw}
\usecolortheme{whale}
\newcommand\layera{%
\begin{tikzpicture}[y=0.20pt,x=0.20pt,yscale=-1, inner sep=0pt, outer sep=0pt]
\path[cm={{0.8028232,-0.59621716,0.59621716,0.8028232,(0.0,0.0)}},draw=black,opacity=0.990,miter
limit=4.00,line width=0.943pt,rounded corners=0.0000cm] (-99.8372,584.6912)
rectangle (-30.7483,653.7801);
\end{tikzpicture}
}
\newcommand\layerb{%
\fill[blue!40] (0,0) circle (1);
}
\newcommand\layerc{%
\fill[red!40] (0,0) circle (1);
}
\begin{document}
\begin{center}
\begin{frame}
\begin{animateinline}[loop,controls]{1}
\layera
\newcommand{\makemylayer}{%
\newframe
\begin{tikzpicture}[y=0.20pt,x=0.20pt,yscale=-1, inner sep=0pt, outer sep=0pt]
\layerb
\end{tikzpicture}
\newframe
\begin{tikzpicture}[y=0.20pt,x=0.20pt,yscale=-1, inner sep=0pt, outer sep=0pt]
\layerc
\end{tikzpicture}
}
\makemylayer
%\newcommand\MyLayers{\layerb, \layerc}
%\foreach \mylayer in \MyLayers {
% \newframe
% \begin{tikzpicture}[y=0.20pt,x=0.20pt,yscale=-1, inner sep=0pt, outer sep=0pt]
% \mylayer{}
% \end{tikzpicture}
%}
\end{animateinline}
\end{frame}
\end{center}
\end{document}
There are 3 layers (tikzpicture): layera, layerb, and layerc, and except for layera, I'd like to loop through the contents of each tikzpicture (layerb and layerc).
So when I comment out \makemylayer, uncomment the foreach block, when I try to compile, there's the following error message:
! Package animate Error: Contents of first frame must not have zero width.
Thanks for your help.
Edit2
I've tried other looping methods such as loop, forloop etc., but most of them deals with a counter or something like that; could someone kindly provide any advice on how to iterate through the above list of commands and make it work?
Thank you very much.
