How to synchronize animations across usercontrols in WPF

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I am creating several usercontrols in a wrap panel. I have a view model bound to the usercontrol and I have an animation triggered to a property in the view model. Very simple toggle color from red to transparent to simulate flashing. ``` ``` This works just fine. However, since I load multiple usercontrols asynchronously the blinking animations are not synchronized so they all blink at different times. There is now a requirement that anything blinking on the screen needs to all blink at the same rate/time. Is there a way to sync these animations? I canno…

Accepted Answer

I could not find a good way to control multiple animations across multiple usercontrols so I ended up not using animation in the usercontrol but instead use an animation to simply change a dependencyproperty in a static object and have all usercontrols that need to blink in some fashion bind to that property. There are various ways to produce the desired results I wanted but ultimately I now had a way for all my controls to know when blink was on and then off so that everything is synchronized.

I got the idea and sample code from the following site: How to synchronize animations across usercontrols in wpf

I made a few modifications to it but overall it did exactly what I needed it to do.

How to synchronize animations across usercontrols in WPF

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