Psyked

If you’re still using Flash’s inbuilt Tween classes for you scripted animations, I suggest you stop – and start making things easier for yourself by using Tweener instead. Tweener is a class that replaces Tween, works for Actionscript 2 and Actionscript 3, offers a simpler interface for creating tweens, and has a larger range of easing options to work with.

What’s wrong with Tween?

The Tween class is ok – up to a point. It does what it’s supposed to, but once you start trying to integrate it with serious full-on Actionscripting you’ll notice a few snags. If you’re dynamically creating and removing objects, and then want to dynamically modify the tweens, your tweens will likely go crazy. Start a new Tween and there’s very little way you can stop it – even by removing its subject. Stacking Tweens doesn’t go down well either – if you create one to move an object left to right, and then mid-animation another to move it back to the left, things go ok until the point that the first animation should finish – whereupon your object will flick back to the finishing position of the first, and then resume the second animation. Read More…