I wish this and the other material that couldn’t make it in this article was in a documentation somewhere.

The article shined a lot of light, but there are still bits which I don’t fully understand:

1. the @timevalue for the second Keyframe in Motion_x is 23000. Does that mean the animation is 1 second long(AnimationCore.@duration/AnimationCore.@TimeScale), but the count is 0 based ? so go get timing of the second Keyframe I would use (parseInt(Keyframe.@timevalue) + 1000) / parseInt(AnimationCore.@TimeScale) ?

2. The y value of that second Keyframe @anchor is 336.95, I didn’t understand what ‘native units’ means. Then I pasted your xml into the MotionClipboard.xml file and just pasted the motion and had a look at it. Initially I pasted the motion to a clip that was at the centre of the stage, and numbers’s from the property inspector/motion editor didn’t match the xml. Then I placed my clip at 0,0 and pasted the motion…the numbers matched. Does this mean the xml values are relative values to where the clip is ?

3. This is the part I’m most interested in at the moment…If the motion xml has relative coordinates, how can I get the absolute x,y,z properties for a 3d transformed object from jsfl ? Once the clip goes in ‘3d mode’ the (Element).x property goes to 0. How does Copy Properties/Paste Properties from the timeline context menu work ? Is that accessible via jsfl ?

I am very interested in this, so any hint will help.

Thank you sharing all this,
George

When I paste the code into new AS3 class, move things to the proper locations, and make it the document class; it works like a charm. See AS file at http://www.richhumphreys.com/source/SimpleMotion.as.txt

This code works if I have an Symbol on the timeline with the instance name “box”.

I run into problems when I try to create instances in ActionScript. If I try and create a symbol instance in code and add to the stage, then use the variable name as the first argument of the addTarget() method, I receive this error…

ReferenceError: Error #1069: Property instance1 not found on SimpleMotion and there is no default value.
at fl.motion::AnimatorBase$/processCurrentFrame()
at fl.motion::AnimatorFactoryBase/addTargetInfo()
at fl.motion::AnimatorFactoryBase/addTarget()
at SimpleMotion()

Just as a lark I added an instance name “test” to the code generated instance, but the error comes up the same only with “Property test not found”.

I suppose I could build a motion XML file like described in this Blog, but it seems rather verbose when I can handle it with one or two Arrays.

Is this a bug? Where can I look to find how this is supposed to be used?

–Rich

I have volunteered to help my son’s preschool update their website. I have tried to follow the tutorial written by Jen deHaan but I am not able to make the text and images move the way i want to. Can someone please help?

Kamal