Feature request / Maybe it exist already?

[onedayitwillmake]

Hi I'm wondering if this already exist in TweenMax, or if not, if it's possible to request for a feature here.

 

Sometimes when working on something, you might want to have an update loop temporarily (say mousedown, until mouse up). The way to do that in JS would be to create a request animation frame, and then kill it later etc etc.

 

However since TweenMax is already running one in the background, I was wondering if it was possible to hook into it somehow. Taking advantage of the nice, remove / pause features TweenMax provides

 

I imagine something like, (or whatever you guys see fit!)

var updateReference = TweenMax.onEnterFrame(scope, myFunction);
updateReference.pause();
updateReference.resume();
updateReference.remove();

[GreenSock]

Sure, that's exactly what the TweenLite.ticker is for. See http://api.greensock.com/js/com/greensock/core/Animation.html#ticker for docs. 

 

It's smart to tap into this because not only does it ensure that all your stuff perfectly synchronizes with the core engine's updates, but you also get all the benefits of GSAP's workarounds of bugs in various browsers. For example, there are problems with iOS's requestAnimationFrame functionality in certain scenarios and some browsers don't even support requestAnimationFrame at all - GSAP automatically falls back to setTimeout() in those cases. It'd be a pain if you had to do all that stuff yourself. 

TweenLite.ticker.addEventListener("tick", yourFunction);

It's that easy. And then of course you can removeEventListener() too.

 

Is that what you were looking for?