Wednesday, October 25, 2006

I have always been a fan of tweening classes in Flash, I think the first one I ever used was Zeh Fernando's MCTween years ago when it was but a mere prototype... Then I moved on to lmc_tween Class until I settled on the built in Tween class which was as then undocumented, but some clever flash guru found it lurking in the classes directory! This tween class has been fairly good to me for some time but there's always been one thing that has bugged me which is the lack of support for chaining Tween's together and callback functions. I have had a lot of unsightly code which has setInterval's calling functions to call new tweens which is not good!

Today was a breakthrough for me, I finally gave FuseKit a go, and seeing as it is the official update to the lmc_tween class it feels immediately familiar and has the support for callback functions and delays as did the original.

By far the most interesting feature which I have been using today is Fuse, the animation sequencer. With Fuse it is simple to chain a set of tweens either for 1 object or multiple objects and you can group tweens together so you can perform multiple tweens on 1 object before moving onto the next object in the sequence. This is exactly what I have been looking for! I feel that I have only really started to scrape the surface of what is possible with FuseKit as it also has support for Flash 8 filter tweening too. I can highly recommend it to anyone looking for the ultimate Tween class.

Jon 3:20 PM Permalink