Tween Your Images With ActionScript Saturday 2006-03-25
Using the ActionScript 2.0 in Flash, you can have a lot of fun with the Tween class and the easing package. If you have some knowledge of ActionScript, and want to ease your work with your image transformations, you can have a ball with the classes in the mx.transitions packages.
Using only one frame and an external ActionScript, you can do almost anything you want by applying one or more of the transformations, accessible to the artistic programmer. After some thought on my road to a new Flickery Flash image display, I decided to take the Tween class on a ride.
Using others wisdom, I boldly set out to tween the transparency and the size of a JPEG image, and at the end combine the tweenings. It turned out to be a fairly easy ride. What you do is load the image of your choice into a MovieClip, and create a new instance of the Tween class. It’s constructor takes as arguments, the object you want to apply the change to, the property you want to change, the start and end value of that property, the duration of the tween and an easing function or class, that knows how a special type of tweening is done.
That’s pretty much all you have to do. Nothing fancy to the code, but the result is impressive. If you like to know how to create image effects in a fun and lazy way, read my tutorial “Using the Tween Class“.
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