[Tweener] Tweener 1.32.74

[Zeh Fernando]

Oh, just to be clear, when I said...

'but I can asure you there's "new version of tweener", "Tweener 2",
"TweenerLite" or anything coming'

... I meant...

'but I can asure you there's NO "new version of tweener", "Tweener 2",
"TweenerLite" or anything coming'

Not sure why the "NO" disappeared from the original post. Weird.

Zeh

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 9:27 PM, André Cardozo <walkandre at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Zeh Fernando <zeh at zehfernando.com> wrote:
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>> 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 design are outdated, and this is not something you just 'change'.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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