Creating Dynamic Tween Variables In a Timed Sequence

Say you want to have a number of tweens perform in a sequence but you don't want to type out all the tweens. Here is how you do it using a timer to animate some menus one at a time with a delay of 50 milliseconds between each:

import fl.transitions.Tween;

import fl.transitions.easing.*;

import fl.transitions.TweenEvent;

var timerCounter:uint=0;

var theTimer:Timer=new Timer(50,6);/

theTimer.start();

theTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, display);

function display(e:TimerEvent):void {

timerCounter++;

var thisLoopNode:Object=menu_mc.getChildByName("node"+timerCounter);

this["tweenx"+timerCounter]=new Tween(thisLoopNode,"x",Regular.easeOut,0,100,1,true);

this["tweeny"+timerCounter]=new Tween(thisLoopNode,"y",Regular.easeOut,0,timerCounter*10,1,true);

this["tweenalpha"+timerCounter]=new Tween(thisLoopNode,"alpha",Regular.easeOut,0,1,1,true);

}

Loading external images and reacting to load complete and smoothing bitmap

var slideLoader:Loader=new Loader();

csHostRef.addChild(slideLoader);

slideLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, slidePreloaded);

slideLoader.load(new URLRequest(xml.slide[currentSlide].mediaURL));

function slidePreloaded(){

//do stuff here now that pict has loaded

//...and this will smooth the bitmap so it doesnt look crappy scaling

var smoother_bm=Bitmap(slideLoader.content);

smoother_bm.smoothing=true;

}