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Flash CS3 animator class and loading XML animation at runtime

May 4th, 2007

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:

[as]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();

}[/as]

Entry Filed under: XML, actionscript, flash, flash CS3