A graphic can be as simple as a single word of text “ON” or a number “72”, or it can be an animated image (rotating fan). Widgets provide the graphic visualization of data in Workbench, so animated graphics are comprised of one or more widgets assembled in a Px file, available for display using the Workbench display media types. Widgets are animated by binding any widget properties to a legitimate data source. This means that you can connect numeric values to widget properties that use numeric values and you can connect binary values to objects that can use binary values. By animating the properties of a widget, you can control text and image appearance as well as a change a widget’s location on the page and even its visibility.

The following sections describe the different concepts that relate to animating graphics.