Archive for the 'Easing' Category

Flash Lite 2 is actually pretty nice

One of the nice new things introduced by Flash Lite 2 is the ability to use Actionscript 2 when programming. For those of you who don’t remember, Flash Lite 1 was more or less a freak of the nature, with a language that was a mix of old Flash 4-ish “actions” and Flash 5 objects. […]

Read the rest of this entry...

Posted on 26/Feb/2007 at 6:18 am | 7 Comments | Categories: Actionscript, Design, Easing, Flash, Flash Lite, Interface, Sources, Tweener

Introducing caurina.transitions.Tweener

In 2003, I was pretty pissed with the tweening extensions available at the time. I found them to be too clumsy and overly complex, requiring a lot of code just to create a single transition. I didn’t want to use 3+ lines just to change the way a button looked like when it was rolled […]

Read the rest of this entry...

Posted on 25/Feb/2007 at 3:54 pm | 53 Comments | Categories: Actionscript, Easing, Flash, Interface, MC Tween, Tweener

User interface animation: why’s it any good?

In the Flash development community, many people seem to agree that having interface elements animation – say, a button fading, menu elements sliding, etc – is pretty cool, even if they can’t theorize more about the reasons why. Some people, however, argue it’s not needed – it’s only wasting the user’s and the developer’s time. […]

Read the rest of this entry...

Posted on 16/Jun/2006 at 7:19 pm | 8 Comments | Categories: Easing, Flash, Interface

Robert Penner updates his easing equations page

Everybody’s equation hero Robert Penner has updated his easing equations page. Worth of note now is that his equations are now licensed under BSD, that he has added a few more links to the page and, more importantly, that he’s hosting the entire tweening chapter of his book on the site on the form of […]

Read the rest of this entry...

Posted on 2/Apr/2006 at 8:01 am | Comments Off on Robert Penner updates his easing equations page | Categories: Actionscript, Easing, Flash