The Little Tweener that Could
I used MC Tween all the time. When AS 3.0 came out, I loved everything about it, except the fact that there was no MC Tween. I sent an e-mail to Zeh asking if he was planning on porting it. He mentioned that he was working on a new implementation called Tweener, but that it was only for AS 2 and not yet ready for the public. Zeh was kind enough to send me the source so I spent that week porting it to AS3.
It’s funny to think back to those days, which was really not that long ago, and now I couldn’t even imagine what it would be like to make a Flash app without using Tweener!
Well, apparently I’m not the only one. It’s been great to see John Grden talk about how easy it was to learn and use in conjunction with Papervision3D, or to hear Ricardo Cabello (aka, Mr. Doob) say, “If you need a tween class, don’t look [at] any other, you only need Tweener!”
If you don’t know what Tweener is yet, head over to the project on Google Code and read the quick description. I promise it is worth it!
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AS3 Tweener looks great – thanks! Since using the Macromedia AS3 Tween class requires the whole flex framework, it is pretty much useless if you want a small swf.
Question: is there an equivalent of continueTo() for tweener? I use this a lot with the AS2 Tween class because I imagine it is more efficient when creating multiple motions for the same object (for example a button that tweens position on rollover) .
More Tweener recognition from BLITZ