Flash | Retrospective

Flash tidbits, struggles, revelations, and teaching

New iPod Mini

My new iPod Mini arrived the other day… well, it was mine for about 5 hours. It was really bought for my wife, but I got to play with it until she got home from work.
Her computer is an “old” dual AMD MP BoxxTech machine and was well before FireWire [...]


ActionScript — Use mx.transitions.Tween

Using the mx.transitions Class is very easy and a simple way to tween stuff that used to take a LOT longer to do the “old-way”.
Syntax:
referenceID = new mx.transistions.Tween( InstanceName, “_property”, easingType, beginning value, ending value, # of frames or seconds, boolean);
Example:
[as]
easeType = mx.transitions.easing.Strong.easeOut;
myTween = new mx.transitions.Tween(myMovieClip_mc, “_x”,easeType, 0, 600, 20);
// onMotionFinished [...]