Comments on: MXML making stuff move

By: Abdul Qabiz

Abdul Qabiz — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 10:40:56 +0000

seems, the code I posted didn’t appear :(

-abdul

By: Peter Elst » MXML custom effects

Peter Elst » MXML custom effects — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 23:39:02 +0000

[...] I had an interesting comment on one of my blog posts asking about creating your own custom effects in MXML. I knew it was possible but wasn’t really up to speed on the best way to do it. Well, after a bit of research here is an example — its a very basic rotation effect that rotates an object by a given number of degrees over time. [...]

By: Abdul Qabiz

Abdul Qabiz — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 22:01:15 +0000

Nice post Peter.

Just wanted to add that, if someone doesn’t want to embed swf on compile-time they can load it runtime, this results in lighter file-size.

Following example shows that how to load a swf on runtime and control the timeline of the swf from Flex app.

##LoaderDemo.mxml##

##animation.swf##
It contains a movieclip with some animtion and stop() action on first frame of it.

-abdul

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 09:18:24 +0000

@zwetan: yes, you should be able to script custom effects for MXML quite easily — I believe you just have to create an AS2 class and subclass one of the effects. I’ll post an example on my blog as soon as I have some time.

@Paul: its been a while since I last used SMIL — but in the way the effects are defined it does look a bit like SMIL syntax. Under the hood of course it does completely different things (generates AS2 from the MXML and compiles that).

By: Paul B

Paul B — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 07:43:32 +0000

What your discribing seems very much like SMIL, is that a fair comment?

By: zwetan

zwetan — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 02:21:28 +0000

wow, I didn’t know that you could have sequencial effects in such way in flex

interesting indeed, even when you know how to build the AS to do that, just 10 lines of MXML are way faster

is it possible to define custom effects by code or in your own MXML node ?