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How to: Interactively Control a Clock	03/30/2017	csharp vb	controlling clocks interactively [WPF] clocks [WPF], controlling interactively	d0b520e0-2f18-4cef-977f-2909e709548a

How to: Interactively Control a Clock

A xref:System.Windows.Media.Animation.Clock object's xref:System.Windows.Media.Animation.ClockController property enables you to interactively start, pause, resume, seek, advance the clock to its fill period, and stop the clock. Only the root clock of a timing tree can be interactively controlled.

Note

There are other ways to interactively control animations that don't require you to work directly with clocks: you can also use Storyboards. Storyboards are supported in both markup and code. For an example, see Animate a Property by Using a Storyboard or the Animation Overview.

In the following example, several buttons are used to interactively control an animation clock.

Example

[!code-csharptimingbehaviors_procedural_snip#GraphicsMMClockControllerExample] [!code-vbtimingbehaviors_procedural_snip#GraphicsMMClockControllerExample]

See also

• Animate a Property by Using a Storyboard
• Animation Overview