[Tweener] Tweener 1.32.74

[Gerry Creighton]

Indeed.

-Gerry


On May 19, 2009, at 5:57 PM, Zeh Fernando wrote:

> So many stuff didn't make it into proper official extensions or  
> supported features.
>
> I am sorry.
>
> But still, it's one of the beauties of being an open source project.  
> It will still work.
>
> Zeh
>
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 6:51 PM, <gerry at thespikeranch.com> wrote:
> 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 design are outdated, and this is not something you just 'change'.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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