Problem with TimelineMax and SplitTextField

[stenrap]

Hi all,

 

First post...just became a shockingly green member. I'm trying to add a TweenMax.allFrom() tween on a SplitTextField object to a TimelineMax, and I'm running into a compiler error. Here's my code:

 

var welcomeToTextSplit:SplitTextField = new SplitTextField(welcomeToText);
var welcomeTimeline:TimelineMax = new TimelineMax();
welcomeTimeline.append(TweenMax.allFrom(welcomeToTextSplit.textFields, 1.5, {transformAroundPoint:{point:new Point(ovidSetupBotText.x + ovidSetupBotText.width + 5, ovidSetupBotText.y), scale:0.0}, delay:0.5, ease:Strong.easeOut}));

 

And here's the compiler error:

 

Error: Implicit coercion of a value of type Array to an unrelated type com.greensock.core:TweenCore.
welcomeTimeline.append(TweenMax.allFrom(welcomeToTextSplit.textFields, 1.5, {transformAroundPoint:{point:new Point(ovidSetupBotText.x + ovidSetupBotText.width + 5, ovidSetupBotText.y), scale:0.0}, delay:0.5, ease:Strong.easeOut}));                                                                                                                                                                    ^

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

[stenrap]

Got it sorted out. Since the append() method expects a single tween, you can't use it to tween an array of objects (such as an array of split textfields). Instead, you need to call appendMultiple(). I was thrown off by the fact that the output of the compiler error was wrapping to a new line, so it looked like the caret was pointing to the delay parameter:

 

delay:0.5
^

[GreenSock]

Exactamundo. You've got it.

 

Welcome to the club by the way.