Liquidstage [SOLVED]

[moritz.dumee]

Hi,

 

Just became member and payed the 75 euro. Not what i hoped in terms of examples although i'm sure the work you guys is great.

 

Would love to have a .fla example with the liquidstage (component, .as) working). Not sure if i need flex, hoped it was just flash. Can u help???

[GreenSock]

Did you see the 11 interactive examples in the "demo_swfs" folder? Most of them even write sample code for you. Sorry to hear you were disappointed with what you got in terms of examples, though.

 

You do NOT need Flex for any of the bonus classes. LiquidStage was really built for straight Flash anyway.

 

If the interactive swfs don''t give you what you wanted, I'd be happy to send you a simple FLA that shows it in use. I put the effort into the interactive examples because I thought they did a better job of communicating the core concepts since you can play around with things and instantly see the effect while watching the code change down below based on your selections.

[Pedro]

Hi there,

 

I'm getting this error when I apply a easing effect to a pin mc.

 

1118: Implicit coercion of a value with static type Object to a possibly unrelated type Number.

 

ls.attach(loader, ls.CENTER, false, 3, {ease:Elastic.easeOut});

 

Warning: 3590: int used where a Boolean value was expected. The expression will be type coerced to Boolean.

 

ls.attach(loader, ls.CENTER, false, 3, {ease:Elastic.easeOut});

 

 

I'm using Flash cs4

[GreenSock]

You're missing a parameter in there. Check out the docs at http://www.greensock.com/as/docs/tween/ ... stage.html.

 

public function attach(target:DisplayObject, pin:PinPoint, strict:Boolean = false, reconcile:Boolean = true, tweenDuration:Number = 0, tweenVars:Object = null):void

 

So parameters 3 and 4 should be Boolean values. I assume you meant to do this:

 

ls.attach(loader, ls.CENTER, false, true, 3, {ease:Elastic.easeOut});

[Pedro]

thank you so much!

It is working!

[Pedro]

Hey there!

Another question for you!

I have a swf file that has a liquid stage with lots pin mc. (and works great)

I've load it into another swf file that has others elements that need to be pin!

The thing is, when I create another liquid stage in the swf "container" the loaded swf loses all his "liquidness".

 

What can I do?

thanks again.

[GreenSock]

I have a swf file that has a liquid stage with lots pin mc. (and works great)

I've load it into another swf file that has others elements that need to be pin!

The thing is, when I create another liquid stage in the swf "container" the loaded swf loses all his "liquidness".

 

Yeah, that's a bit of an odd setup - did you build the swfs at the same size originally? Is there a reason you're not loading in the assets and using the parent's LiquidStage? Any chance you could send me an example set of FLAs? It doesn't need to be your production files - just something very simple that demonstrates the issue.

[Pedro]

For the exemple

the first swf has this:

 

import com.greensock.layout.*;
import com.greensock.easing.*;
import com.greensock.plugins.*;


var ls:LiquidStage = new LiquidStage(this.stage, 800, 600, 800, 600);
ls.attach(mc, ls.LEFT_CENTER, false, true, 2.1, {ease:Elastic.easeOut});

var Xpos:Number = 50;
var Ypos: Number = 50;
var swf:MovieClip;
var loader:Loader = new Loader();

var defaultSWF:URLRequest = new URLRequest ("teste2.swf");

loader.load(defaultSWF);
loader.x =  Xpos;
loader.y = Ypos;

addChild(loader);

 

 

The seconde swf has this:'

 

import com.greensock.layout.*;
import com.greensock.*;
import com.greensock.easing.*;
import com.greensock.plugins.*;


var ls:LiquidStage = new LiquidStage(this.stage, 800, 600, 800, 600);
ls.attach(mc2, ls.LEFT_CENTER, false, true, 2.1, {ease:Elastic.easeOut});

[GreenSock]

The problem is that the 2nd swf (the one you're subloading) doesn't have a valid "stage" property when your code runs initially (it's null). You need to wait to run your code until the swf is added to the stage. You could do that like this:

 

import com.greensock.layout.*;

function init(event:Event=null):void {
if (event != null) {
	this.removeEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, init);
}
if (this.stage == null) {
	this.addEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, init);
} else {
	var ls:LiquidStage = new LiquidStage(this.stage, 800, 600, 800, 600);
	ls.attach(mc2, ls.LEFT_CENTER, false, true, 2.1, {ease:Elastic.easeOut}); 
}
}

init(null);

 

I tested this concept locally and it seemed to work well.

[Pedro]

hummmm...it is not working for me

 

mc2 doens't tween when I resize the swf "loader".

 

I have this here:

 

swf loader:

 

import com.greensock.layout.*;
import com.greensock.easing.*;
import com.greensock.plugins.*;

var ls:LiquidStage = new LiquidStage(this.stage, 800, 600, 800, 600);
ls.attach(mc, ls.LEFT_CENTER, false, true, 2.1, {ease:Elastic.easeOut});

var Xpos:Number = 50;
var Ypos: Number = 50;
var swf:MovieClip;
var loader:Loader = new Loader();

var defaultSWF:URLRequest = new URLRequest ("teste2.swf");

loader.load(defaultSWF);
loader.x =  Xpos;
loader.y = Ypos;

addChild(loader);

 

 

The one that is going to be subload

import com.greensock.layout.*;
import com.greensock.*;
import com.greensock.easing.*;
import com.greensock.plugins.*;

function init(event:Event=null):void 
  {
  if (event != null)   
  {
     this.removeEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, init);
  }

  if (this.stage == null) 
  {
     this.addEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, init);
  } 
  else    
  {
     var ls:LiquidStage = new LiquidStage(this.stage, 800, 600, 800, 600);
     ls.attach(mc2, ls.LEFT_CENTER, false, true, 2.1, {ease:Elastic.easeOut}); 
  }
}

init(null);

[GreenSock]

Aha, I think I see the problem. It's related to two LiquidStage instances sharing the same stage and pinning objects to both, but I just uploaded a new version of LiquidStage-related classes that should resolve this. Please download the latest version by logging into your GreenSock account at http://www.greensock.com/account/ and let me know if it works well for you. Thanks for letting me know about this.

[Pedro]

it is working!

thanks for the help!

[Pedro]

There is a bug...I think

If you run the swf loader you will be able to see that both swfs are tweening together, which is nice.... however, if you wait some seconds and try to resize the screen the sub-loaded one stops tweening.

[GreenSock]

Could you send me an full-blown example (it can be simple, but I want both FLAs please). I'm not able to reproduce this on my end, but maybe there's some difference in my setup (I used almost exactly the same code as you posted earlier). I wonder if there's something else going on in your file? You did republish both swfs so they both have the new LiquidStage code in them, right?

[Pedro]

I've just sent you an e-mail. ( for this one info@greensock.com)

[GreenSock]

Thanks so much for the example FLAs. Those were super helpful in quickly identifying the issue which had to do with using a weak reference on a listener internally. That's fixed now and there's a fresh version up on the site. Just log into your account at https://www.greensock.com/account/ to get it.

[Pedro]

it is working fine right now!

thanks for everything.