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BetweenAS3, fast, powerful and professional new tweening engine I’m developing (please see this page or this page), is still under development… But today, I announce “Alpha r3022″ version for early betweeners!

I don’t give assurance about quality, but many main features may works well. Please test and send feedback (bug report, request, etc) to me.

You can checkout BetweenAS3 Alpha r3022 via SVN from:

• http://www.libspark.org/svn/as3/BetweenAS3/tags/alpha-r3022/

or download as ZIP or SWC from:

• http://www.libspark.org/svn/as3/BetweenAS3/tags/alpha-r3022/release/

Did you find text “fp9″ in filename? There is good news. FlashPlayer9 version also available!!

Yesterday, version of BetweenAS3 in Wonderfl is r2505, but today, it was updated to r3022. You can enjoy new version in Wonderfl!! You can find BetweenAS3 samples in this “BetweenAS3Tutorial” tag page.

Changes from r2505 to r3022 is the following:

 * [r3021] Created FlashPlayer9 version based on r3019.
 * [r3018] Fix: Error occurred when stopping or playing tween in event handlers.
 * [r3017] Added property for frame tween (_frame) and utility for convert frames and time (TimeUtil).
 * [r3016] Added ITween.togglePause
 * [r3009] [r3010] Supported physical tween. (BetweenAS3.physical)
 * [r3007] Added shortcuts for BetweenAS3.tween and BetweenAS3.bezier
  * BetweenAS3.to
  * BetweenAS3.from
  * BetweenAS3.bezierTo
  * BetweenAS3.bezierFrom
 * [r3005] Fix: Function specified in BetweenAS3.func will be called many times.
 * [r2998] Supported bezier tween. (BetweenAS3.bezier)
 * [r2996] Supported parallel and serial by passing Array parameter. (BetweenAS3.parallelTweens, BetweenAS3.serialTweens)
 * Changed internal architecture and package.
  * Supported inheriting event handlers when processing tweens by this change.
  * [r2994] Created IUpdater interface.
  * [r2694] Renamed BetweenEvent class to TweenEvent.
  * [r2692] Moved ITicker interface and TickerListener class to Core package.
  * [r2688] Created Core package.
  * [r2688] Removed ITweenTarget interface, integrated it to ITween interface and created IObjectTween interface.
  * [r2688] Created ITweenContainer (now ITweenGroup) interface.
 * [r2618] Moved a delay setting to the BetweenAS3.delay method for more flexibility.
 * [r2617] Changed the timing of calculating tween parameters to the first time of start playing the tween.
    Now sequence of tween using related value works fine.
     BetweenAS3.serial(
       BetweenAS3.tween(mc, {$x: 100}),
       BetweenAS3.tween(mc, {$x: 100})
     );
 * [r2600] Fix: Sometimes ReferenceError has occured while creating a tween.

Here is FAQ:

 Q. How to do filter tween?
 A. Do the following:

     BetweenAS3.tween{mc, {_glowFilter: {blurX: 32, blurY: 32}}).play();

    The following properties for filter are supported.

     * _bevelFilter
     * _blurFilter
     * _colorMatrixFilter
     * _convolutionFilter
     * _displacementMapFilter
     * _dropShadowFilter
     * _glowFilter
     * _gradientBevelFilter
     * _gradientGlowFilter
     * _shaderFilter

 Q. How to do ColorTransform tween?
 A. Do the following:

     BetweenAS3.tween(mc, {transfrom: {colorTransfrom: {redOffset: 255}}}).play();

 Q. How to do SoundTransform tween?
 A. Do the following:

     BetweenAS3.tween(sc, {soundTransform: {volume: 0.0}}).play();

 Q. How to set delay?
 A. By using BetweenAS3.delay, add delay to tween.

     BetweenAS3.delay(BetweenAS3.tween(mc, {x: 100}), 1.0).play(); // Delay 1.0 sec

 Q. How to do bezier tween?
 A. Do the following. Pass control points in argument 4. Set Array of control points for each property.

     BetweenAS3.bezier(mc, {x: 385, y: 207}, null, {x: [58.05, 145.9, 246.7, 345.55], y: [61.4, 80.65, 167.05, 209.3]}).play();

Reference of a class to render the items in a column can be set to DataGridColumn.cellRenderer property as the following frame action:

// Frame action
import fl.controls.DataGrid;
import fl.controls.dataGridClasses.DataGridColumn;
var myColmn:DataGridColumn = new DataGridColumn("data");
var myDataGrid:DataGrid = new DataGrid();
myDataGrid.addColumn(myColmn);
// myColmn.cellRenderer = "CustomCellRenderer";  // Error #2007
myColmn.cellRenderer = CustomCellRenderer;  // OK
myDataGrid.addItem({data: "test"});
addChild(myDataGrid);

[Help] also tells that the type of the property’s value can be String. However setting a String class name causes Error #2007 like the below. The error would be shown if the comment-outed statement was validated instead in the sample above.

TypeError:Error #2007:Parameter child must be non-null.

I happened to see DataGridColumn.cellRenderer property in ActionScript 2.0 Components Language Reference. It says that the property is “a linkage identifier for a symbol”.

Therefore, I tried to create an empty MovieClip symbol and to set the class to [Class] of [Linkage]. Then the String class name set to the property in the code above worked properly without an error. As my conclusion, a String class name might only be used for the class set to [Class] of [Linkage].