TypewriterPlugin and DecoderTextPlugin

[TronicVolta]

I just created two plugins to achieve the popular typewriter and decoder text effects.

They follow the same architecture as the other plugins, and behave just like a tween.

Pass a Textfield instance as the target, and a String for the property.

Thanks Jack!

 

TextEffect Plugins

 

So for the TypewriterPlugin you would use.

import com.greensock.TweenLite;
import com.greensock.plugins.TweenPlugin;
import com.greensock.plugins.TypewriterPlugin;

TweenPlugin.activate([TypewriterPlugin]);
TweenLite.to(textField, 0.5, {typewriter:"Lorem Ipsum"});

 

DecoderTextPlugin:

import com.greensock.TweenLite;
import com.greensock.plugins.TweenPlugin;
import com.greensock.plugins.DecoderTextPlugin;

TweenPlugin.activate([DecoderTextPlugin]);
TweenLite.to(textField, 0.5, {decoder:"Lorem Ipsum"});

[GreenSock]

Cool! Thanks for sharing.

[zedman]

Hi, I just tried to implement the TypewriterPlugin, but get the error message:

"Mit 'override' gekennzeichnete Methode muss eine andere Methode außer Kraft setzen." German, I know But there are some issues with the override thing in the Plugin.

 

Do you know something about that?

 

Thanks

Zoran

[rob_v_5712]

Looks like this was written for v11 - here is a quick port to v12 for the TypewriterPlugin.

 

It won't allow me to attach a file for some reason so here a paste of the file:

 

/**
   VERSION: 1.2
   DATE: 3/27/2010
   ACTIONSCRIPT VERSION: 3.0
   @author Marco Di Giuseppe, marco [at] designmarco [dot] com
   @link http://designmarco.com
   
   Ported to Greensock v12 by 
   @author Rob Verzera, rbv [at] logicswing [dot] com
  
 */
package com.greensock.plugins
{
	import flash.text.TextField;
	import com.greensock.TweenLite;
	import com.greensock.plugins.TweenPlugin;
	/**
	   TypewriterPlugin tweens the characters of a Textfield simulating a typing effect.

	   @usage
	   import com.greensock.TweenLite;
	   import com.greensock.plugins.TweenPlugin;
	   import com.greensock.plugins.TypewriterPlugin;

	   TweenPlugin.activate([TypewriterPlugin]); //activation is permanent in the SWF, so this line only needs to be run once.
	   TweenLite.to(textField, 0.5, {typewriter:"Lorem Ipsum"});

	   Greensock Tweening Platform
	   @author Jack Doyle, jack@greensock.com
	   Copyright 2010, GreenSock. All rights reserved. This work is subject to the terms in http://www.greensock.com/terms_of_use.html
	   or for corporate Club GreenSock members, the software agreement that was issued with the corporate membership.
	 */
	public class TypewriterPlugin extends TweenPlugin
	{
		/** @private **/
		public static const API:Number = 2; //If the API/Framework for plugins changes in the future, this number helps determine compatibility
		
		/** @private **/
		protected var _target:Object;
		
		//protected var target:TextField;
		protected var newText:String;
		protected var newLength:int;
		protected var oldText:String;
		protected var oldLength:int;

		public function TypewriterPlugin()
		{
			super("typewriter");
		}

		override public function _onInitTween(target:Object, value:*, tween:TweenLite):Boolean
		{
			_target = target;
			
			if (!(_target is TextField)) return false;

			oldText = _target.text;
			oldLength = oldText.length;

			newText = String(value);
			newLength = newText.length;

			return true;
		}
		
		override public function setRatio(v:Number):void {
			super.setRatio(v);
			var valueA:Number = oldLength + (-oldLength * v);
			var valueB:Number = oldLength + ((newLength - oldLength) * v);
			_target.text = newText.substr(0, int(valueB - valueA + 0.5)) + oldText.substr(0, int(valueA + 0.5));
		}
	}
}

[Ruxor]

Hello,

 

The link is not working anymore, I can't find the files for these plug-ins. Does someone happen to have them and can share them?

 

Thanks!

[Carl]

It looks like Rob v provided the source for his plugin in this thread. You probably just need to put that into a file named TypewriterPlugin.as and put it in the plugins folder.

 

That's about all the help I can provide. We do very little Flash support these days and I have no experience with this plugin created by Rob many years ago. Sorry.