[Tweener] Noob Question: Animate Instances Only?

[Zeh Fernando]

Oh, then yes, you can just use "this".

Michael Narciso wrote:
> Actually, I was referring to being able to use the Linkage option for 
> the MovieClip, such as exporting for actionscript for use with a class. 
> I was trying to make a class that used tweener but I couldn't get it to 
> work without having to put some kind of instance name.
> 
> Usually if I wasn't using tweener I could just use 'this' instead of 
> writing any instance names at all.
> 
> Thanks for all the amazing timely responses by the way.
> 
> On Aug 10, 2008, at 1:58 PM, Zeh Fernando wrote:
> 
>> Well, the instance name is the reference variable. So if someone wants 
>> another name instead, one can always create another reference.
>>
>>  var xx:MovieClip = myMovieClipWithALongName;
>>
>> Then:
>>
>>  Tweener.addTween(xx, {...});
>>
>> Instead of
>>
>>  Tweener.addTween(myMovieClipWithALongName, {...});
>>
>> Same thing.
>>
>> Wes wrote:
>>> It sounds to me as if he's asking if he can use a variable instead of 
>>> typing the exact name of the instance.
>>> --- On *Sun, 8/10/08, Zeh Fernando /<zeh at zehfernando.com>/* wrote:
>>>    From: Zeh Fernando <zeh at zehfernando.com>
>>>    Subject: Re: [Tweener] Noob Question: Animate Instances Only?
>>>    To: tweener at lists.caurinauebi.com
>>>    Date: Sunday, August 10, 2008, 1:26 PM
>>>    > I'm still learning AS3 and Tweener at the same time so please 
>>> excuse me
>>>    > if my terminology is off but hopefully you get what I'm trying 
>>> to ask.
>>>    > I'm trying to create a class for disabling an animation and I'd
>>>    like to     > know how to animate something without having to use 
>>> the instance name. I     > know the description of Tweener says that 
>>> it animates instances but is     > there a way to do this dynamically 
>>> so I don't have to type in the     > instance names all the time?
>>>    I'm not really sure I get the question - Tweener would have to 
>>> know what     to animate, so you need to use the instance name as the 
>>> reference.
>>>    If you're trying to animate the same display object, you can just 
>>> use     "this" as the reference parameter since you're inside the object
>>>    already.
>>>    If it's a child of the current display object or something 
>>> that's     somewhere else, you'd indeed need to use the name, or if 
>>> you want to do     that in a more painful way, you could use 
>>> getChildAt().
>>>       // Animates whatever's at level 0
>>>       Tweener.addTween(getChildAt(0), {...});
>>>    Or you could always have an array of objects too...
>>>       var myobjs:Array = [cube, sphere, pyramid];
>>>       // Animates "cube"
>>>       Tweener.addTween(myobjs[0], {...});
>>>    HTH,
>>>    Zeh
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