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Yet another Actionscript framework. The interesting bit is the transactional animation package. It takes an approach similar to CoreAnimation and provides implicit animation within a transaction.

IMPLICIT ANIMATION EXAMPLE

In the simplest case, you can just bracket the property changes you want animated with Animate.begin() and Animate.commit(). The former can take some arguments, but omitting them uses reasonable defaults.

var someSprite:Sprite = new AnimatableSprite();

Animate.begin();

someSprite.x = 500;
someSprite.y = 500;
someSprite.alpha = 1;
someSprite.tintColor = 0xff0000;

Animate.commit();

When properties are set on an Animatable object, that object first checks to seek if the animation manager has an open transaction (created in this case by Animate.begin()), and if so, instead of setting the value directly, it creates an implicit animation and the value is changed over time. Properties that do not support animation will just be immediately changed.

This pattern also allows for much more straightfoward conditional animation:

function updateSomething(shouldAnimate) : void {
  if(shouldAnimate) Animate.begin();
  someSprite.x = 500;
  if(shouldAnimate) Animate.commit();
}

And controlling animation from code that does not have or need direct access to animated objects:

function updateSomething() : void {
  Animate.begin();
  updateSomeObjects(); // updated objects will be animated
  Animate.commit();
}

// elsewhere...
function updateSomeObjects() : void {
  someSprite.x = 500;
}

CAVEATS

This framework is very new, has never been used in a substantial project, only supports a limited subset of animatable properties[1], and has not yet been optimized very much at all. At this stage it's an effort to look at a new way of managing animation in Actionscript that (hopefully) some people might help improve. Fork it and help make it better!

[1] Currently: x, y, width, hight, alpha, color, tintColor

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