Comments (66)

HOORAY!!! I've been refreshing this page every 10 minutes all day! I'm so pumped about this release! Thanks so much Grant for doing such amazing work!

Posted by: Mark Doberenz at February 2, 2009 10:01 AM
URL: http://www.monkeypatcher.com

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Thank you Grant. Excellent work that is much appreciated by the community. But you knew this.

Posted by: chris at February 2, 2009 03:31 PM
URL: http://www.christeso.com

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Hi Grant,

I think I have found a bug, feel free to tell me different.

Here is some code with comments to toss into a file and watch:

import com.gskinner.motion.GTween;
import fl.motion.easing.*;
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.display.StageScaleMode;

var s:Sprite;
stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE;
s = new Sprite();
s.graphics.beginFill(0x000000,.5);
s.graphics.drawRect(0,0,100,100);
addChild(s);
s.x = 200;
s.y = 100;

var t2:GTween = new GTween(s, 1, null, {delay:5, ease:Cubic.easeOut});
var t3:GTween = new GTween(s, 1.5, null, {reflect:true, repeat:-1, ease:Cubic.easeInOut});

t2.proxy.rotation = 50;

//If this is on, after the box rotates, the height is affected
//t3.proxy.width = 300;

//if this is on, all is well after rotation
//t3.proxy.scaleX = 3;

Posted by: Adam Hass at February 2, 2009 03:36 PM
URL: http://www.datausa.com

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Adam - This actually has to do with how Flash deals with those properties. It's actually quite bizarre: width and height are set without consideration for rotation, however they are returned calculated with rotation. You can see this behaviour in the following code:

trace(s.width); // 100
s.rotation = 45;
trace(s.width); // 141.4 rotated width
s.width = 200; // visually only affects unrotated width
trace(s.width); // 170.7 rotated width

This is in contrast to scaleX and scaleY, which are unaffected by rotation.

Posted by: Grant Skinner at February 2, 2009 05:35 PM
URL: http://gskinner.com/blog/

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this is good news! any svn repo for this?

Posted by: sascha/hdrs at February 2, 2009 09:29 PM
URL: http://blog.hexagonstar.com/

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Amazing Grant! I've been using GTween in a couple of projects already. Really good stuff. splines/catmull rom anytime soon? :D

Posted by: Mr.doob at February 3, 2009 05:02 AM
URL: http://mrdoob.com

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Hi Grant,

I really enjoy reading through your API's. I definitely look forward to using your engine on a real project when it comes out of beta. The only thing that looked a bit odd to me, was using an array to add multiple tweens in the gTweenTimeline class. I'm not even saying its the wrong way, just seemed like a possibility for human error.

Also I was wondering if there was a way, or even a need, to make pass a label as the start position for a tween. ie. addTween(labelNameOrStartPosition:*, tween:GTween):void. This could be cool because altering the label would move whatever tweens were using the label as their start position as well.

THANKS again!!!

Posted by: Tim at February 3, 2009 06:49 AM
URL: http://timkindberg.com

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Thanks Grant for responding to the width issue. I don't know why I never noticed that! I'm a little bit speechless. I guess I can always do a little math and just use the scaleX and Y properties, or if I am drawing to the graphics object, I can just redraw.

Thanks for the wonderful tween engine, I love the proxy!

-Adam

Posted by: Adam at February 3, 2009 09:05 AM
URL: http://www.datausa.com

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thanks!
now I have enough of a reason to test this out instead of TweenMax. :-D
Virtual Timeline, sounds really useful!

Posted by: John at February 4, 2009 05:11 AM
URL: http://blog.mindfock.com

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Maybe I'm being dumb, but my callbacks are all being added at the end of the timeline for some reason.

var timePos = 0;
var timeline:GTweenTimeline = new GTweenTimeline();

for(var i=0; i

timeline.addCallback(timePos, fillInText, [slideShowArray[i].quote, slideShowArray[i].fullname, slideShowArray[i].company]);

timePos += 1;

var tween = new GTween(slideShowArray[i].image,0.75,{alpha:1.0},{ease:Quadratic.easeOut});
timeline.addTween(timePos, tween);

timePos += 0.5;

....etc adding a bunch of tweens here...
}

shouldn't the callback happen first??? everything else is called in order, but the callback is tacked onto the end. ???

And BTW, this RULES, thank you for all your hard work!

Posted by: Kristin at February 5, 2009 05:34 PM
URL: http://kristinwille.com

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Hey Grant!

I am also having a problem using addCallback();

The callback function is being called at BOTH the position I added it to in the timeline and at the end of the timeline, specifically after Event.COMPLETE is dispatched by the timeline.

Here is example source and output:

import fl.motion.easing.*;
import com.gskinner.motion.GTween;
import com.gskinner.motion.GTweenTimeline;

var tweenTimeline:GTweenTimeline = new GTweenTimeline();
var tween:GTween = new GTween(box_mc, 1, {rotationX:360, rotationY:360});

tweenTimeline.addTween(0, tween);
tweenTimeline.addCallback(.5, tweenTimelineCallback);
tweenTimeline.calculateDuration();

tweenTimeline.addEventListener(Event.CHANGE, tweenTimelineHandler);
tweenTimeline.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, tweenTimelineHandler);
tweenTimeline.addEventListener(Event.INIT, tweenTimelineHandler);

function tweenTimelineCallback():void{
trace("tweenTimelineCallback()");
}

function tweenTimelineHandler(event:Event):void{
//trace("tweenTimelineHandler()");
trace("event.type: " + event.type);
}

The above source outputs:
event.type: change
event.type: init
event.type: change
event.type: change
event.type: change
event.type: change
event.type: change
tweenTimelineCallback()
event.type: change
event.type: change
event.type: change
event.type: change
event.type: change
event.type: change
event.type: change
event.type: change
event.type: change
event.type: change
event.type: change
event.type: change
event.type: change
event.type: change
event.type: change
event.type: complete
tweenTimelineCallback()

Any thoughts?

Thanks for everything GTween is awesome!

-Brody

Posted by: Brody at February 6, 2009 09:27 AM
URL: http://www.outsidesource.com

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Seems to have some issues when using autoVisible. When I fade an image from alpha 1 to 0 and back from 0 to 1, everything seems to work fine. The problem comes with textfields (I actually have a textfield within a sprite and fading the sprite).

When fading a sprite with an input textfield from 1 to 0, it just jumps to visibility false when the alpha hits 0 but does not change the alpha in between. When fading the sprite back, the input text field stays hidden. This problem seems to be sporadic at times, sometimes it will become visible, sometimes it will not.

Thanks,
-G

Posted by: Giraldo at February 9, 2009 11:09 AM
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Giraldo - You must embed your fonts to be able to alpha fade a text field. Let me know if that doesn't help.

Posted by: Grant Skinner at February 9, 2009 11:15 AM
URL: http://gskinner.com/blog/

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Not sure if this blog is the place to post bugs, if not, please let me know...

Found a problem when changing the timingMode on the GTweenTimeline. Using the code (the paper object contains a Papervision Plane):

var tween:GTween;
var timeline:GTweenTimeline = new GTweenTimeline(null, 0, null, {timingMode:GTween.TIME});
timeline.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onPeopleComplete);

tween = new GTween(paper['person1'], 1, {x:0, y:50, z:25}, {ease:Sine.easeInOut});
timeline.addTween(0, tween);

tween = new GTween(paper['person1'], 1, {x:-50, y:0, z:0}, {ease:Sine.easeInOut});
timeline.addTween(1, tween);

timeline.calculateDuration();

Thanks,
-G

Posted by: Giraldo at February 9, 2009 12:10 PM
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Awesome job Grant! I have one question on GTweenFilter. Can you use the Color Effects in there at all?

For example, if you wanted to animate a Tint or Brightness that you had applied in the Properties Panel under the Color Effects section, could you do that? Or a red offset under the Advanced section of that same panel? I know I'm asking a ton here, but, I'm just curious. Thanks!

Posted by: Kevin S. at February 10, 2009 02:40 PM
URL: http://twitter.com/kevinSuttle

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Please keep the questions and bug reports coming. I'll try to answer them as I have time (my next couple weeks are insane).

Kevin - you can animate colorTransform effects by taking advantage of setAssignment. This lets you animate the properties of the colorTransform object, and automatically reassign it back to the target every time it is updated. I believe there is some sample code in the setAssignment documentation.

Posted by: Grant Skinner at February 10, 2009 02:49 PM
URL: http://gskinner.com/blog/

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Grant, thanks for the info! I don't know how I missed that. This will work!

Posted by: Kevin S, at February 11, 2009 10:58 AM
URL: http://twitter.com/kevinsuttle

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Hey Grant, I have a question about declaring a MultiTwee var. You can re-use GTween instances after you declare the GTween var, but can you do the same with a MultiTween so you're not making a new var each time?

For instance, you can use:

var introTween:GTween = new GTween(null, 0.25, null,{ease:Cubic.easeOut});

but

var mt:MultiTween = new MultiTween([null],[{null}], null);

var mt:MultiTween = new MultiTween([],[{}], null);

var mt:MultiTween = new MultiTween([],[], null);

var mt:MultiTween = new MultiTween(null,null, null);

don't work. It seems it wasn't built for that. Or maybe I'm just doing it wrong. Thanks!

Posted by: Kevin S, at February 12, 2009 04:28 PM
URL: http://twitter.com/kevinsuttle

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Hey there, I just played a little bit with GTween and what can I say ... it's awesome so far, but there is a little bug in your currentLabel getter (GTweenTimeline). It doesn't return the right labels. Just try labels like

tweenTimeline.addLabel(10, "ALabel");
tweenTimeline.addLabel(20, "BLabel");
tweenTimeline.addLabel(40, "CLabel");

this will return "CLabel" at any tweenPosition.

the getter should probably look something like this:

public function get currentLabel():String {
var minDelta:Number = -(duration+1);
var label:String;

for (var n:String in labels)
{
var delta:Number = labels[n]-_tweenPosition;

if (delta minDelta) {
label = n;
minDelta = delta;
}
}
return label;
}

cheers
Martin

Posted by: Martin at February 13, 2009 08:49 AM
URL: http://www.formatlos.de

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there's a bug in the GTween.copyObject function.
It must be :

protected function copyObject(o:Object):Object
{
var copy:Object = {};
for (var n:String in o)
{
copy[n] = o[n];
}
return copy;
}

thanks for your work !
cheers

lomitko

Posted by: lomitko at February 17, 2009 04:55 AM
URL: http://www.lomitko.com

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Awesome tweeningengine!
Is it also possible to tween a ColorMatrixFilter? The only value of the ColorMatrixFilter is the matrix array. The values of the matrix (matrix[0]) does not work. Any idea how to tween the values? I thought about tweening the values separated and making an update method, whichs adds the filter on every update.

Posted by: Kim at February 20, 2009 08:11 AM
URL: http://www.bigsource.de

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Small question, why does GTween uses instances instead of static calls such as the Tweener class?

The frontpage says "gTween is built for ActionScript 3 developers from the ground up. It uses a more conventional instance-oriented model, rather than a static interface." but it doesn't say why.

Posted by: Jordi at February 23, 2009 03:40 AM
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Great work. I will immigrate my application to GTween assap.

Posted by: Han Erim at February 23, 2009 04:19 AM
URL: http://www.flashwebeditor.com

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I'm having the same problems as Giraldo mentioned:

var tween:GTween = new GTween(field, 0.5, {alpha: 0}, {ease: Quadratic.easeOut});
tween.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, tweenCompleteHandler);

function tweenCompleteHandler(event:Event):void {
var tween:GTween = event.target as GTween;
tween.reverse();
}

Nothing happens, fonts are embedded as well. I've also tried it via the proxy approach but sadly with the same result.

Posted by: Simen Brekken at February 23, 2009 05:06 AM
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I have also problems with the Event.COMPLETE.
You interrupt demo shows how easy it is to interrupt the tween and add a new value to the proxy. this also works fine. but if i want to change the proxy value in the Event.COMPLETE, the tween wont work. If i fire the "makeTween" function delayed over a timer, it works fine. seems, that i only can change the proxy values before and after the tween complete event, but not when the tween event is fired.

Example:

private function initialize() : void
{
_shape = new Shape();
_shape.graphics.beginFill(0x0000FF);
_shape.graphics.drawEllipse(-20, -20, 40, 40);
_shape.graphics.endFill();
_shape.x = 500;
_shape.y = 250;

addChild(_shape);

_tween = new GTween(_shape,1);
_tween.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onEnd, false,0,true);

makeTween();
}

private function makeTween():void
{
_tween.proxy["x"] = Math.random()*500;
}

Posted by: Kim at February 24, 2009 04:15 AM
URL: http://www.bigsource.de

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Beta 5 is looking great!

I'm excited about the getProperties method, but unfortunately it does not appear to be working.

Consider the following example:

var tween:GTween = new GTween (MyObject, 1, { x: 100 } );
var properties:Object = testTween.getProperties ();
trace (properties.x); // undefined
trace (properties["[object Object]"]); // 100

Thanks for this great tweening library!

Posted by: Joshua Granick at February 25, 2009 02:28 AM
URL: http://www.eclecticdesignstudio.com

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Ah, I see that someone already posted the fix for copyObject.

The other issue I see is that tweens with a time of zero don't work. I know this is kind of a misnomer -- tweens with no time -- but I liked that a tween time of zero used to set the target property to its final value immediately.

Posted by: Joshua Granick at February 25, 2009 02:45 AM
URL: http://www.eclecticdesignstudio.com

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Jordi,

Many developers prefer the object-based approach GTween and other tweening libraries use over a static function. However, I have created a static manager for GTween that provides the functionality you are asking for.

You can read more about it here:

http://www.flashdevelop.org/community/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=4172

I'll be posting an updating version which implements updates for GTween Beta 5 soon.

Posted by: Joshua Granick at February 25, 2009 02:49 AM
URL: http://www.eclecticdesignstudio.com

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Hey Joshua,

Thanks for your reply. It's good to know that you have this version of GTweener, and I might use it. But still the question remains why people would prefer calling an instance's functions instead of some static functions. Just wondering, so in the future I can make the right decision for either yours or GTween.

Posted by: Jordi at February 27, 2009 03:21 AM
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Great work on the latest update, I love the direction it's heading with GTweenTimeline.

I had a couple suggestions after working with it on a couple project:
1. Allow for MultiTweens to be added to a GTweenTimeline.
2. Allow for multiple callbacks to be added to a specific position.

It's been mentioned a couple times already, but the callbacks get unexpectedly called at the end of the GTweenTimline as well as at their specified position. I'm not sure if that was the intended functionality, but it took me by surprise and caused some extra work to ignore the second time they got called.

From a quick test it looks like the issue only occurs when you don't have reflect on. There is a second checkCallbackRange() call within checkCallbacks() that seems to be causing the callbacks to trigger at the end.

Posted by: Drew Miller at March 5, 2009 12:32 PM
URL: http://www.iccohio.com

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Hi Grant,

Just started using Beta5, nice work! However I had a couple of problems, which had me scratching my head for a good couple of hours.

The first problem was easy to solve, which was that entering a duration of 0 does nothing.

The second one was harder to find a solution for. I had it set up so that on completion of one tween, the same tween was given a new value, and started again. The issue occurred because paused was being set to true after the complete event was dispatched. This meant that I was telling it to play and it was immediately being paused again. Swapping lines 744 and 745 (in setPosition) solved that one :) Is there any reason why it was that way round?

Posted by: Owen at March 5, 2009 06:42 PM
URL: http://blog.steamboy.co.uk

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Just saw this tool and tried it out because i want to do some dynamic motion tweening.

In my case i was trying to tween a tree branch to have slight but dynamic movement on mouseOver. I created a global GTween variable and upon mouseOver i set the GTween properties as follows:
branchInitTween.setProperties({rotation:(scaler*rotationAmount)});

branchInitTween.setTweenProperties({duration:4});

That works correctly, with no jumping because my duration is 4 seconds. However, if I try to change durations based on the distance of the tweens as seen below:

branchInitTween.setProperties({rotation:(scaler*rotationAmount)});
time = Math.round((distance*(speed))/(rotationRate));
branchInitTween.setTweenProperties({duration:time});

the animation will pop and jump and eventually crash because the duration is made to be dynamic. ie changing from 0 to n as necessary.

I may be using your api incorrectly, but based on your documentation this seems correct.

Any advice on how to pull something like this off with the jumps?

Jeff

Posted by: jeff at March 10, 2009 04:24 PM
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Where can i read about GTweenTimeLine class
because you put some functionality for parallel playing of "effect's" in this class and i have many question like howe properly put them ...for now i use addTween method whith first attribute 0 what i think mean that is first order plaing, but i have qustino how can o catch the moment when first group of tweens will be finished ...
for example i have two
var tw1:GTween = new GTween();
var tw2:GTween = new GTween();
var gtl:GTweenTimeline = new GTweenTimeline();
gtl.addTween(0,tw1);
gtl.addTween(0,tw2);
.... i think that it's will bring that two effects will play parallel and i want to registrate function what will be doing in at the end of the effect ...
for standart parallel efect is easy is just addEffectListener ... but how to do it with GTween .... it's realy useful think ... can you explaine

Posted by: Vitalik at March 11, 2009 09:27 AM
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Jordi,

Sorry about the delay.

I updated information for GTweener here:

http://code.google.com/p/gtweener

Sometimes the global approach can be kludgy and inefficient when compared to a local instance. However, when done right, I believe that keeping tweening global can give you a few advantages.

For me, using GTween in combination with GTweener provides the best of both worlds. You can use it like a global function, but you can grab (or register) a local GTween instance for when you want to get more specific and take advantage of some of GTween's unique features.

Posted by: Joshua Granick at March 11, 2009 10:40 PM
URL: http://www.eclecticdesignstudio.com

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Does GTween have any way of tweening the color of a TextField? My attempts result in flickering color. Tweener can do this properly, but it is 3x larger...

Posted by: MindSpace at March 16, 2009 06:19 PM
URL: http://www.MindSpaceSolutions.com

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Hi Grant,

GTween doesn't seem to work with durations of 0. Am I maybe doing something wrong?

var sp : Sprite = new Sprite();
sp.graphics.beginFill(0);
sp.graphics.drawRect(0, 0, 100, 100);
sp.graphics.endFill();
addChild( sp );
new GTween( sp, 0, {alpha: 0} );

Thanks!
Florian

Posted by: Florian at March 18, 2009 02:56 AM
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Hi Grant,
thanks for this amazing tween API.

I've this tween

new GTween(s, .1, {x:100.752, {ease:Quint.easeIn});

I would like to use snapping:true property to round pixel coordinates but in the documentation I couldn't find an example of the hash table to pass as snappingProperties parameter.

Could you provide me an example please?

Thanks

Posted by: Riccardo Bartoli at March 18, 2009 07:03 PM
URL: http://www.rblab.com/blog/

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I'm afraid there is a bug with the autoPlay property – it's not possible to set it to false.

The problem is, that the construtor invokes the invalidate() method prior to the setTweenProperties() method.

Posted by: Stepan at March 19, 2009 09:04 AM
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i have down this file("GTween_beta5"),the problem is can't open the fileGTweeny3D_FlashCS4.fla"),i want to study flash about 3D,please help me, thank you!

Posted by: future at March 21, 2009 08:35 PM
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Hey
Tested GTweeny for an banner ad. The delay property didn't seem to work.

Looked at GTween and noticed that it was abit different:

// GTweeny
public function set delay(value:Number):void {
_delay = value;
if (_position == -_delay) {
_position = -_delay;
}
}

// GTween
public function set delay(value:Number):void {
if (_position == -_delay) {
setPosition(-value);
}
_delay = value;
}

Tested using GTween's setter for delay and it worked.

Posted by: Andreas at March 23, 2009 07:30 AM
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Hey!
It's possible to delay each of MultiTween obiect seperately ?

var tween1:GTween = new GTween(null,2.8,null,{reflect:false,repeat:-1,ease:Exponential.easeOut});

var mt:MultiTween = new MultiTween ([tekst3,tekst4,tekst1,tekst2,tekst5,tekst6], [{x:494},{x:495},{x:484},{x:485},{x:700},{x:700}], tween1);

thanks
Filip

Posted by: Filip at March 24, 2009 02:13 PM
URL: http://www.fotoreklama.com

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Hi, great work Grant!
Unfortunately as Kristin mentioned, addCallback in GTimeline adds the function call at specified time and once more in the end of the GTimeline. Or maybe it was fixed lately? Is there any newer version accessible?

Cheers, thanks,
JZ

Posted by: JZ at March 25, 2009 02:28 AM
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Found a bug in GTweenFilter.

If you start a filtertween, then remove that filter in another function before the tween is finished, then index '0' in the filters array does not exist. So naturally this throws errors. It might be beneficial to catch that if the filter array is empty.

Thats never a good practice, I know, but it just popped up consequentially. I'll fix that on my side, but it's something that someone might run into at some point.

Posted by: Dustin Sparks at March 27, 2009 09:17 PM
URL: http://dustinjsparks.com

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How could I make a simple color fading ?

Posted by: the real balta at March 31, 2009 05:06 PM
URL: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mynameisps

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Nobody seems to be able to tell me how to do a color tranformation to and from an RGB value. I followed your hint made in the comments, resulting in the following code.
But the color is flickering and not the desired result ;) . Could you please shed some light on how to achieve this. My 'flickering' code is below.

import fl.motion.easing.*;
import com.gskinner.motion.*

var colorInfo:ColorTransform = clip.transform.colorTransform;
var myTween:GTween = new GTween(clip,2,{color:0xFFcc00});
myTween.setAssignment(clip.transform,"colorTransform");

Posted by: jiri Heitlager at April 8, 2009 11:52 PM
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Default timing does not make sense. The default value for GTween constructor second argument time is 10. The default timingMode is HYBRID - which means default timing is 10 seconds.

Why can't I change default time? I want to use HYBRID mode and want to specify in 1 central place, that default timing is .3 seconds? I need to roll my own global constant and pass it to all constructors everywhere - it seems silly.

Also, I think it is silly to have time as the second argument to the constructor - time should only be specified in a few places where it is something other then default fading-interval (where .3 seconds should be standard).

My suggestion is more conceptual than technical, and you have probably discussed this many times over. But I would just like to add my 2 cents to the debate anyway :)

Morten Barklund

Posted by: Morten Barklund at May 4, 2009 07:54 AM
URL: http://www.barklund.org/blog

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Hi Grant,

We use GTween on most new projects and love it. Thank you for the awesome engine.

We delegate tasks to devs that sometimes involve modules and have run into some CPU problems using GTween. If multiple modules specify GTween.timingMode = GTween.TIME, multiple timers are created and run unnecessarily contributing to additional CPU overhead.

I've added a check that looks for an existing static timer instance and prevents duplicate timers from being created in this case.

Thanks again!

Justin

Posted by: Justin Wilaby at May 7, 2009 11:00 AM
URL: http://www.ratiointeractive.com/

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I need to make a news ticker but using the Timer class or using enterframe gives meannoying flickering.

I read this is because the Timer Class is inaccurate.
A possible workround would be to use the sound oncomplete event as timer. Any experience in that?

thanks, bart

Posted by: bart at May 7, 2009 04:50 PM
URL: http://www.twitter.com/wiibart

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I added a function to remove all the tweens from the GTweenTimeline. The implementation removes all instances from the tween and position arrays, wihtout creating new memory. Here it is, if any comments please do so.

/**
* Removes all tweens from the timeline.
*/
public function removeAllTweens():void
{
var i:int = tweens.length;
while (--i >= 0) {
tweens.splice(0,1);
tweenStartPositions.splice(0,1);
}
}

Posted by: Jorrit at May 15, 2009 03:38 AM
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Excellent work, Grant. I really appreciate people like you who take the time to compile ultra-awesome libraries like this and then release them for free to anyone that wants it.
Keep up the great work.

Posted by: Matt at May 30, 2009 11:56 AM
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I've decided to give gTween a try on a personal project (I typically use Tweener). I have read several posts about the proper method of tweening color transform properties with gTween, and I believe that I am doing it correctly. However, I am getting some strange results. If I tween a clip with 128,128,128 RGB colors (0x808080) to 255, 153, 000 I should see an orange color (0xFF9900, but I am getting a yellow color. This does not happen if the original color is white. I tried another method where I tween the color property of a color transform and I get the correct color, but the object goes through a rainbow of other colors first. I just want to tween from grey to orange. Anyone know what I am doing wrong? Or am I just expecting gTween to perform some magical impossiblility?

My code examples:

//tween from current color to orange using offsets
var orangeTween:GTween = new GTween(this._target.transform.colorTransform, 1, {redOffset:255, greenOffset:153, blueOffset:000}); orangeTween.setAssignment(this._target.transform, "colorTransform");
//note: tweens to the wrong color if the target's color is not white.

//tween from current color to orange using color property
var orangeTween:GTween = new GTween(this._target.transform.colorTransform, 1, {color: 0xFF9900});
orangeTween.setAssignment(this._target.transform, "colorTransform");
//note: tweens to the proper color but goes through a rainbow of colors first (we want grey to orange - works with Tweener).

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Hi Grant, congrat for this engine, I'm searchin to use it for a long, but the ease of onComplete method in Tweenmax, etc...
make make me choose it.
I think I will create a Gt tweenEvent class that will dispatch it when tween state is at End.
but do you think there is another way and even more great:
is there a way to already easily embed it???
I didn't found it...

thank you so much !!!

Posted by: benjamin foucaud at June 14, 2009 02:33 PM
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Hi,

The library is very good and very useful.

However I am facing an issue. I am basically trying to do a small tween where a movie highlights half a second (by size, blur etc.) and then it should return to its normal state. My tweens are sometimes not returning even if I have "reflect" as ON. Sometimes it works when "reflect" is OFF !

I have tried different combinations of reflect=true/false with repeat=-1,0,1,2,...
It works sometime and I make some other stupid change (e.g. duration of the tween) and it stops working. Then I change something else, it starts working and then when I am coding something else, it stops again.

I am at loss of wits :( Please help.

I have lot of other tweens in the same code, if that is of any help to you for debugging.

Thanks,
Mukesh

Posted by: Mukesh at July 20, 2009 07:39 AM
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I just separated out my code and put it in a smaller fla file.

Can you see if I am doing anything wrong?

Here it is:

import com.gskinner.motion.*;
import fl.motion.easing.*
import fl.transitions.easing.*;
import flash.filters.GlowFilter;

var timeline:GTweenTimeline = new GTweenTimeline(null,0,null,{repeat:0,ease:Linear.easeNone,reflect:false});

var tween:GTween = new GTween(animationx,1,{x:40,y:30},{ease:Linear.easeNone});
timeline.addTween(0,tween);

timeline.calculateDuration();
var color:Number = 0x0000FF;
var bluralpha:Number = 0;
var blurX:Number = 0;
var blurY:Number = 0;
var strength:Number = 0;
var quality:Number = 4;
var inner:Boolean = false;
var knockout:Boolean = false;
var glowfilter:GlowFilter = new GlowFilter (color, bluralpha, blurX, blurY, strength, quality, inner, knockout);
animationx.filters = [glowfilter];
var ft:GTweenFilter = new GTweenFilter(animationx,.8,{blurX:3,blurY:3,strength:1.7,alpha:0.5},{reflect:true,repeat:1,filterIndex:0,ease:Strong.easeOut});
//ft.reversed = true;
timeline.addTween(1.5,ft);

timeline.calculateDuration();

stop();

Posted by: Mukesh at July 20, 2009 07:54 AM
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And I should mention that in the example I gave above, I am only expecting the second tween to return back. First motion tween is just a dummy one.

Posted by: Mukesh at July 20, 2009 08:06 AM
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Grant,

I found a bug that was driving me nuts. It has to do with the GTweenTimeline setPosition() function. This method will cause a 'complete' event listener to be called before the timeline has finished playing all of the tweens.

I was trying to set the final position of objects when the tween 'complete' event was dispatched, but the objects would always end up in the wrong position.

I have not had a chance to write a fix yet but will in the next couple of days. Hopefully, this bug will be fixed in the next release.

Thanks for the open source tweening engine.

Posted by: Aaron W at July 24, 2009 11:19 AM
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Grant,

Huge bug or something ridiculously simple?

When adding a GTween to a GTweenTimeline, all initListener properties are completely ignored. completeListeners work perfectly though.

I've tested this on your GTweenTimeline Demo, and the initListeners are failing just the same.

What's going on?

Posted by: Adamo at July 26, 2009 07:27 PM
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Another bug that may be related to the same problem:

When adding a GTween to a GTweenTimeline, "repeat" doesn't work. The GTween only lasts as long as its duration and stops, ignoring the repeat:-1 attribute.

Posted by: Adamo at July 26, 2009 07:29 PM
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This initListener problem is definitely a bug.

It has to do with the 'reversed=true' property:

When reversed is set to 'true,' the class forces an initListener function that immediately sets the object to the tween values specified, which allows it to play it backwards from those points.

However, that action uses up the only slot for an initListener, so any initListeners that we need to execute in the .fla file are completely ignored.

I advise some kind of patch, since this problem renders an initListener completely useless. In my case, I can't easily sync a sound effect to a reversed tween.

Posted by: Adamo at July 26, 2009 08:35 PM
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as Stepan commented,
autoPlay property doesn't work in my condition.

i'm sad........

Posted by: only3km at August 7, 2009 01:20 AM
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wow, it seems there are still many bugs, and not so many answers to the questions :)
Btw, I second the bug on the addCallback which fires twice, at the right time and at the end of the animation. Since my animation doesn't need to be reverted I could easily comment line 302 of GTweenTimeline.

Best and thanks for the effort.

Posted by: christian at August 26, 2009 12:07 AM
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Hi!

I'm using GTween to create a ticker. When the tween is complete I have to check if I need to update the ticker text so I can't use repeat. How do one restart a tween manually after updating the target object?

Thanks in advance,
Christer

Posted by: Christer at August 27, 2009 05:37 AM
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Hi!
I noticed new version should run on Flash10,
Does it possible run it on Flash9 or get a previous version to run on Flash9?

Thanks

Posted by: sy at August 31, 2009 09:48 PM
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sy - GTween should run fine in Flash Player 9.

Posted by: Grant Skinner at August 31, 2009 10:17 PM
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Very nice package. This simplifies a lot, and adds a lot of functionality. I will be using this in one of my projects coming up.

I really appreciate your work. I have had a lot of similar ideas, and have coded a lot of what is in this package, but invariably fail to compile my work and have it make sense or be usable to anyone else. This has to do partly with time constraints and job requirements, but also because I just never do that sort of thing, even when I have time. Without you and your work, I (and a lot of other people) would be spending a lot of time re-coding what you have done. Your work is valuable and memorable to me.

Posted by: Delfeld at September 30, 2009 09:56 AM
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Hi Grant, I may have discovered a bug in Gtween 5
It seems the autoVisible option is setting the visible property on every enterFrame. This slows things down a little for me, since I'm overriding the set visible function and doing some stuff before setting the objects visibility, I know I can avoid it simply by adding an if statement to check if visible is already set, but wouldn't it be more correct to set visible on the end of the tween only?

BTW thanks a lot for giving us GTween!

Cheers Kim

Posted by: Kim at November 3, 2009 06:21 AM
URL: http://www.apt.dk

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