Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ help with animation in tables

[xlearner]

Hello All,

I have a requirement of using animation with latex tables in beamer. I am drawing a table in a frame. After the table is completely drawn, I want to fill the entries of the table cell after cell. I want the entries to be filled after a button click.


For this kind of transition, I typically \pause command. But, it does not help me in this case. All the examples with tables I have seen, are not dynamic. The table is filled statically.

I have seen some suggestions to use \uncover to achieve this effect. It is still not clear though. Can someone help?

Thanks
Xlearner

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Xlearner,

welcome to the forum!

Perhaps show us the code you already have, as a minimal working example. Then there's something to work on.

Stefan

[Johannes_B]

Hi and welcome, can you show us a minimal working example?

[xlearner]

Hello Stefan & Johannes,

Thanks for the warm welcome. After posting here, I was reading through the Beamer manual along with my friend. Then my friend showed me how to do what I want. So, I have attached code that shows the desired execution.

Code: Select all

% 
\documentclass[xcolor=table]{beamer}
\setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{}
\usepackage{beamerthemeshadow}

\begin{document}
\title[Dyamic Table] {Beamer Table Animation Example}  
\author[Learner] {Xlearner}
\date{\today} 

\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Table Animation}
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{ |c|c|c| }
\hline
\textbf{S.No.} & \textbf{Reading 1} & \textbf{Reading 2} \\
\hline \hline
\uncover<2->{1} & \uncover<2->{3003} & \uncover<2->{3006} \\
\uncover<3->{2} & \uncover<3->{3005}& \uncover<3->{3004} \\  
\uncover<4->{3} & \uncover<4->{3002} &\uncover<5-> {3008} \\  
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\end{frame}
\end{document}

This post here also addresses a similar issue: http://latex-community.org/forum/viewto ... mer#p45553

Xlearner

PS: I have marked this thread as solved.