Archive for May 4th, 2007

Flash CS3 animator class and loading XML animation at runtime

May
4

So there is a new animator class. It works like FuseXML. The animations are set by nodes and attributes.
To do this:

  1. start a CS3 document
  2. make an mc called ‘abox’
  3. make an animation
  4. select the animation
  5. Commands > Export Motion XML
  6. name xml file “motion.xml”
  7. create an actionscript layer
  8. Then load XML as usual.

add:

import fl.motion.Animator;
import fl.motion.MotionEvent;
import flash.net.URLLoader;
import flash.net.URLRequest;
import flash.events.*;
 
var abox_xml:XML;
var requester:URLRequest = new URLRequest("motion.xml");
var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader(requester);
var abox_animator:Animator;
loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, startAnimation);
 
function startAnimation(evt:Event):void {
 
abox_xml = XML(evt.target.data);
abox_animator = new Animator(abox_xml, abox);
abox_animator.play();
 
}

Posted in actionscript, flash, flash CS3, XML

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