How to create a moving line in Visio?-CodePudding

I have been working with Visio lately and am used to the basic use of it, but am curious how you can build a 'moving' line in your drawing. Please see this link (and activate Lift A and/or B, C,D, E):

Picture to illustrate the idea

I don't understand what needs to be done to make the interrupted connector line to be moving like that. Anybody any idea?

CodePudding user response：

The ability to build somewhat "live" diagrams was partially the reason for me to build that svgpublish visio extension... This particular effect for example is a simple CSS animation on a line.

svg:

<g id="liftA">
   <path d="..a complex lift path here..." />
</g>

css:

.lift-on {
    stroke-dasharray: 7 1;
    stroke-dashoffset: 8;
    stroke-width: 4px;
    animation: marquee 1s linear infinite;
}

@keyframes marquee {
    from { stroke-dashoffset: 8; }
    to { stroke-dashoffset: 0; }
}

script:

// to turn on the lift:
document.getEelementById("liftA").classList.add('lift-on');

Visio diagram by itself is pretty much static unfortunately, the best I could think of is probably some sort of VBA timer animation.