Picker / Spinner using ThrowProps

[Gary Griswold]

I would like to replace Flex Spinner (sometimes called Picker or UIPicker) with something written in AS3 without Flex.  

 

ThrowProps and Blitmask should be a great help.  Are there any examples of doing using Greensock?

 

 

[Carl]

Hmm, sorry, can't think of anything exactly like that.

By setting a BlitMasks' wrap property to true (see docs), you can easily achieve seamless and infinite looping which should hopefully make it fairly straight-forward.

[Gary Griswold]

It is mostly done now, but the part that is new to me is that the scrolling needs to snap to the nearest item when the velocity is below some threshold. There is a panel snap scrolling example on the http://greensock.com/throwprops web page that is very helpful.  It is only differs from this problem in axis and that the bounds of the scrolling viewport are the same as the bounds of the item being scrolled.

[Carl]

For snapping, see the end property in the docs. It explains how you can use a function to snap to a specified increment. So if each item in your spinner was 100px tall you can make sure it always ends on 100px increments. 

 

It sounds like you want to interrupt your tween when a certain threshold is reached. For that you will need to monitor the velocity of the item that is spinning and then perhaps create a new ThrowProps tween. Check out the track() and getVelocity() methods, they should help with that. 

[Gary Griswold]

Thanks very much Carl.  This is very helpful.