Comments on: Tweener, 4 years later – A post mortem

By: Tweener | ちいさなめプロジェクト

Tweener | ちいさなめプロジェクト — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:43:16 +0000

[...] 開発終了(2009.6) http://zehfernando.com/2009/tweener-4-years-later-a-post-mortem/ [...]

By: Which tweening engine is the best?

Which tweening engine is the best? — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:58:30 +0000

[...] recently came across this post on the blog of Zah Fernando, the creator of Tweener, lamenting his own engine’s death. It [...]

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:26:47 +0000

Thanks so much for sharing Zeh, it’s been really great to work with you and Tweener. Good luck in your future endeavors!

By: Antonio Costa

Antonio Costa — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:05:38 +0000

Obrigado Zé!
Fico meio triste por ver o Tweener morrer… durante muitos anos foi o que usei na maioria dos meus projectos.
Nada como mudar para evoluir.

By: Felix

Felix — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:15:47 +0000

Zeh, I just wanted to deeply thank you for such a robust and useful tool that has served me so well for several years.

MCTween and Tweener has allowed me to really enjoy my work as an ActionScript programmer. Once again, Thanks!

By: Joshua Granick

Joshua Granick — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:16:28 +0000

Hi again,

Thanks for your feedback! I agree that names are important, and after considering and researching tween libraries more, I decided to start a new library called Actuate.

Actuate builds upon what I was doing with GTweener and applies the same concept to any tween library you want to use. This lets you change libraries interchangeably to take advantage of their respective strengths.

I found a library called BetweenAS3 that works faster than any other library I’ve used before, but it only supports Flash 10 and missed certain features I needed. Using a custom actuator, I’m able to add the features I need to use BetweenAS3 the way I want to. I can change to a TweenMax actuator if the project is Flash 9, or a GTween actuator to avoid TweenMax’s license restrictions for certain projects.

Once again I appreciate all of your work, the value you’ve offered us all in Tweener, and showing me that tweening should be fun and easy.

If you ever want to take a look, the project is hosted here:

http://code.google.com/p/actuate

Thanks and good luck to you!

By: maru

maru — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:48:10 +0000

thinks alot. from japan

By: Matt Zimmer

Matt Zimmer — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:51:53 +0000

Thanks. I’m very new to Flash (one month!) and to any kind of programming and scripting and stumbled onto Tweener. In looking at my animations to date ALL of them are based on Tweener. Thanks for the well thought-out code, the great syntax rules, the excellent documentation, and the forgiving way in which Tweener tolerates my feeble attempts to make it do what I want.

I’m going to continue using it until I find some of these limitations you claim are there. I haven’t found any!!

I have a feeling we’ll be seeing something else great from you very soon, with your talent and ability to communicate to newbies like me.

By: Damien Caselli

Damien Caselli — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:38:17 +0000

Thanks very much for Tweener/mctween, it’s been (and still is) a great asset to Flash community.

By: Zeh

Zeh — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:40:10 +0000

Hello Joshua,

Thanks for the kind words. I’ll have a look at the library when possible.

If you allow me an early comment though, I think the name of the extension is too close to GTween and this might cause confusion. I even had a problem understanding the first sentence that mentioned it until I spotted the difference. Maybe I’m not the best person ever to say something like this since even “Tweener” is a very generic name (in retrospect, I should have kept one of the earlier, more unique alternatives) but regardless, I think it’d work better both for GTween and for your extension (even if even GTween should be supplanted by the new project Grant Skinner is building with Jack Doyle in the future).