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TweenMax

Filed under: AS 2, AS 3, Color, Effects, Tween by greensock |

TweenMax extends the extremely lightweight, FAST TweenLite engine, adding many useful features like pause/resume, timeScale, AS3 Event listeners, reverse(), restart(), setDestination(), yoyo, loop, rounding, and the ability to jump to any point in the tween using the “progress” property. It also activates many extra plugins by default, making it extremely full-featured. Since TweenMax extends TweenLite, it can do ANYTHING TweenLite can do plus much more. Same syntax. There are plenty of other tweening engines out there to choose from, so here’s why you might want to consider TweenMax:

  • SPEED – I’m not aware of any popular tweening engine with a similar feature set that’s as fast as TweenMax. See the speed comparisons yourself.
  • Feature set – In addition to tweening ANY numeric property of ANY object, TweenMax can tween filters, hex colors, volume, tint, frames, saturation, contrast, hue, colorization, brightness, and even do bezier tweening, orientToBezier, pause/resume, reverse(), restart(), round values, jump to any point in the tween with the “progress” property, automatically rotate in the shortest direction, plus LOTS more. Overwrite management is an important consideration for a tweening engine as well which is another area where the GreenSock tweening platform shines. You have options for AUTO overwriting or you can manually define how each tween will handle overlapping tweens of the same object.
  • Expandability – With its new plugin architecture, you can activate as many (or as few) features as your project requires. Or write your own plugin if you need a feature that’s unavailable. Minimize bloat, and maximize performance.
  • Management features – TweenGroup makes it surprisingly simple to create complex sequences and groups of TweenLite/Max tweens that you can pause(), resume(), restart(), or reverse(). You can even tween a TweenGroup’s “progress” property to fastforward or rewind the entire group/sequence.
  • Ease of use – Designers and Developers alike rave about how intuitive the GreenSock tweening platform is.
  • Updates – Frequent updates and feature additions make the GreenSock tweening platform reliable and robust.
  • AS2 and AS3 – Most other engines are only developed for AS2 or AS3 but not both.

www.TweenMax.com

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TransformManager

Filed under: Movieclip, Selection, misc by greensock |

Scale, rotate, and/or move any MovieClip on the stage using an intuitive interface (similar to most modern graphics applications like Photoshop and Illustrator). When the user clicks on the MovieClip, a selection box will be drawn around it along with four handles for scaling. When the user places their mouse just outside of any of the scaling handles, the cursor will change to indicate that they’re in rotation mode. Hold down shift to constrain scaling proportions or to limit rotation to 45 degree increments. VERY simple to implement. Easy to customize many properties like the handle size, selection color, whether to scale from the center or edges, etc. Unlike some other classes out there, this one does NOT require that the MovieClip’s registration point be in the center. Get the class and view a sample at http://www.greensock.com/ActionScript/TransformManager.

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