Tweening without a movieClip trigger. Is this possible?

[BakerShoeMaker]

I've been researching Greensock solutions that tween frames. I've found the FramePlugin, FrameLable, etc. However, each of those requires the trigger to be the movieclip. However, I would like for a swipe to be the trigger instead of touching or interacting with a movieclip. In the project I would like the user to be able to swipe left or right to go to the previous or next page (frame).

 

Is this possible with Greensock?

[Carl]

I think you will find ThrowPropsPlugin helpful: http://greensock.com/throwprops-as

[BakerShoeMaker]

Thanks for your response. Sorry for responding so late. I didn't recieve an alert message for this post.

 

The problem I'm having is figuring out how to add Greensock functionality (e.g. Throwpops, FrameLabel plug-in etc.) without triggering a movieclip. In my case I want the user to be able to swipe left or right to go to the next frame. It is a book project and I want the user to be able to swipe from page to page (frame to frame) I also want to add some visual interest as they swipe from frame to frame.

[Carl]

ThrowPropsPlugin has no dependencies on MovieClips or interacting with a MovieClip in any way as a trigger.

 

All you need to do is give ThrowPropsPlugin an initial velocity and it will take care of the rest. 

Your code can be as simple as

 

import com.greensock.*;
import com.greensock.plugins.*;

TweenPlugin.activate([ThrowPropsPlugin]);

ThrowPropsPlugin.to(mc, {throwProps:{x:500, resistance:150}});

Notice there is no code involving mouse events or any interaction with any objects.

 

For your situation you could probably have the stage listen for mouse DOWN - UP events so that you can start tracking the velocity of the mouse (or touch point) and then feed that velocity into a ThrowProps tween (look up track() method in docs). You will not be able to use ThrowPropsPlugin and FramePlugin in the same tween, but you can just tween a simple numeric property of an object and then APPLY that value to whatever movieclip frame you want to.

 

Read the docs, http://greensock.com/asdocs/com/greensock/plugins/ThrowPropsPlugin.html, start simple and then if you have more specific questions, just post a simple example.