Comments on: GreenSock Tweening Platform v11 Beta (Introducing TimelineLite/Max)

By: daraul

daraul — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:26:18 +0000

this is awesome.. almost exactly what i was looking for.

By: Luke

Luke — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:43:52 +0000

Sounds awesome, I can’t wait to check some of these out!

By: jack

jack — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:25:30 +0000

Good question, Manolis. You shouldn’t have to worry about garbage collection at all. I’ve put a lot of effort into protecting things from gc when necessary, and releasing them likewise (when a timeline/tween completes for example). Tweens and nested timelines aren’t eligible for garbage collection until their parent timeline is. But again, this all happens behind the scenes and you don’t have to worry about it. Just take normal precautions like you would with any other AS3 object, like if you’ve got a non-local variable pointing to an instance, make sure you null it if you want it to become eligible for gc.

By: Manolis

Manolis — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:18:15 +0000

What about garbage collection.
When I append new Tweens to the timeline do they get garbage collected after they finish tweening?

By: Last

Last — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:35:06 +0000

Wow Is all I can say.Will the new ASDoc documentation be downloadable or also be able to be intergrated with the Help system in FLash?

By: Haelix

Haelix — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:13:10 +0000

I should’ve guessed there was an onReverseComplete… but yes, using the addCallback() was exactly what I needed. Thanks!

By: jack

jack — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 01:30:49 +0000

Yep, Haelix, that’s actually expected behavior. An onComplete should only fire at exactly the time a tween completes in its forward direction. It sounds like you want a callback at specific times on your timeline which you can accomplish with addCallback() in TimelineMax. Those will fire when the virtual playhead travels past it in either direction.

By: Haelix

Haelix — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:48:53 +0000

I’m not sure if this is a bug or maybe I’m just not doing something right. I’ve got a TimelineLite set up fed with data and each TweenLite appended to the timeline has an onComplete function which simply iterates a “tick” variable which is output on the screen. However, when I reverse the Timeline… it doesn’t seem to call the onComplete function as its tracking back trough the tweens in reverse.

Thanks!
Haelix

By: jack

jack — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:12:51 +0000

Rod, you could get the length like this:

myTimeline.getChildren(false, true, true).length;

Basically, getChildren() returns an Array of all the tweens and/or nested timelines in the timeline, and you can optionally have it return all the more deeply nested tweens/timelines inside of its child timelines as well. It’s actually more flexible than simply having a “length” property because it lets you determine how deeply to dig and what types of children you’re looking for.

By: Rod

Rod — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 05:29:45 +0000

Love this, couldn’t have come at a better time.

One question – is there a simple way of treating TimelineMax as an array – I need to be able to get the length of it somehow, like myTimeline.length, with the expected result being an array of the Tweens I have appended/inserted.

Is this or something like it possible?

Thanks heaps.