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Andrew Fitzgerald

1. Colin 09.12.07 / 6pm

   Cool stuff Andrew, good to see you’re still releasing it
2. andrew 09.13.07 / 5pm

   Thanks, I try to put in what I can here and there when I’m not so busy.
3. TandemAdam 09.30.07 / 6pm

   Hey, Im liking you thinking for this class. Its nice to see some restraint, and not bogging it sown too much.

   I recently needed a tweening class, and stumbled upon Fuze. It is great, but all I am using it for is to fade one MovieClip out while another MovieClip fades in. And using Fuze for this one task is just overkill. I noticed my compile time double after I added it too.

   This is why I want to switch it over to Twease.

   I did a few test runs with Twease but am not too sure what im doing yet. Do you have any example files, so I could pull them apart and see how Twease works?
4. andrew 09.30.07 / 7pm

   Yeah, sure do! This is the messy fla I use to test Twease with. There’s a lot of stuff going on there, so you may want to comment a lot of it out. Sorry I don’t have the time make it all nice and perfect, but I hope it helps!

   Twease Test Fla 1.1
5. Ben 09.30.07 / 10pm

   Andrew this is truly great work! I will definitely be able to find a use for this in interactive banners. Is it possible to animate filters with this beast?
6. andrew 09.30.07 / 11pm

   Of course it can! It takes a bit more, but worth it to save the extra 5k from other packages. Just create the filter object like normal, with whatever starting values you want. Then apply a tween to that filter object for whichever properties you want, then run an upfunc applying it to the mc. Easier shown:

   import flash.filters.BlurFilter; var filter:BlurFilter = new BlurFilter(0, 0, 3); Twease.tween({target:filter, blurX:8, blurY:8, time:3, ease:’easeOutElastic’, upfunc:function(){my_mc.filters = [filter]}});

   Pretty simple, just replace my_mc with your real target movieclip, and interchange that with whatever filter and props you want. If you’re going to use multiple filters, then have that array in there all the filter objects. If you’re going to tween multiple filters at the exact same time, you can save a bit by only running one upfunc. That shouldn’t be an issue though unless you really notice a hit.

   With this latest one, you can tween anything: object properties, items in an array, and even entire arrays, which just about covers everything.
7. Ben 10.01.07 / 2am

   Whoa! I can hardly believe how something so little can do so much.
8. Kevin Cannon 11.14.07 / 7am

   It’s be great if you set up a forum for this so people could ask questions, see previous answers etc…
9. Kevin Cannon 12.10.07 / 9am

   Any idea if tweening filters automatically get stacked?

   I’m getting some strange results when trying to blur a bunch of thumbnails. Each is it’s own instance of a movieclip, with a class. I’ve tried it a variety of ways but always seems to play out in sequence. I’m already tweening their transparency with no problem so I’m quite confused.

   I’ve tried using TweenLite for just the thumbnails and that works fine, but I’m using Twease throughout the project, rather than switching between two.

   Any ideas why I might be seeing this behaviour?
10. andrew 12.11.07 / 12pm

    Yes, every tween is automatically stacked. You can try disabling it to see if it helps.
11. Marcus 02.06.08 / 11am

    This tiny little thing is just perfect! Great work Andrew – simple and quick to get used to as well! Just as everyone else, I’m eagerly awaiting an AS3 port! Hope you find the time! I have been using TweenLite for AS3 size critical projects, but I find myself missing your intuitive sequencing solution.

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