[Tweener] Tweener 1.32.74

[gerry at thespikeranch.com]

Aw...my _htmlText addition didn't make the cut into TextShortcuts.as..?

See: http://blog.thespikeranch.com/how-to-use-tweener-textshortcuts/

-Gerry

> Oh, and one more thing.
>
> Yesterday I committed a new version of Tweener to the SVN server, 1.32.74.
> It replaces 1.31.74 and can be accessed here:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/tweener/source/checkout
>
> The changes are quite small (2 lines of code really) but it's an important
> change. It does this:
>
> * Make tween overwriting *optional*, and off by default.
> * Add a new "overwrite:" parameter to addTween(). If "true", it overwrites
> all tweens on the same property of the same object that overlap with the
> new
> tween.
>
> This breaks some compatibility if you rely on tween overwriting too much,
> but I thought it was important to do this change because it's just a much
> better performance when creating new tweens, specially on a large number
> of
> tweens. Overall tween update performance is unchanged, but tween creation
> time has always been the biggest hog in Tweener and it may reflect on
> final
> average framerates.
>
> Here's a quick comparison graph:
>
> http://imagebin.org/49609
>
> (The graph is for the AS3 version, but this change applies to all AS2 FL7,
> AS2 and AS3 versions of Tweener)
>
> Why have I made this change? Well, this is gonna be the last update to
> Tweener, so I wanted to make sure it would be remembered in a slightly
> better state. Because, while it works fine, I think its design has grown
> stale and many of the paradigms adopted both on its API and its internal
> design are outdated, and this is not something you just 'change'. So it'll
> continue to work, more so in the new version, so if it works for you it's
> great, but this is just a quick notice to let people know that today there
> are better options out there (specially in regards to performance with
> large
> amounts of tweens) and Tweener will soon be oficially an ended project.
> Moving from Tweener to any of the popular tweening projects out there
> should
> be easy though, it's at worst a small syntax change, and at best, just the
> same thing with a different name.
>
> I'll have a much bigger, in-depth postmortem analysis of the project
> published in a few weeks (then I'll also make 1.32.74 the "stable" version
> on the Google Code website). I'll also talk about what I'll do in the
> future, but I can asure you there's "new version of tweener", "Tweener 2",
> "TweenerLite" or anything coming. There is a project done internally at
> Firstborn I'll be properly contributing to once I finally move there, and
> I
> hope I'll be able to talk a bit more about it in a few weeks.
>
> So, for now, thank you very much for everything.
>
> Zeh
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