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Ha mark,

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ik hoor je,

Groet.

Op Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:01:03 +0100 schreef Moses Gunesch  
<moses at goasap.org>:

> Hey Jonathan, thank you for this great email!
>
> You know, it's something that wasn't at the forefront when I designed
> Go, but has actually come up a good number of times since its release,
> and I'm seeing more and more how important it really is. Go should be
> easier to extend into more complex sequencers that can retain state
> like a timeline, run forwards and backwards, and do random-access
> jumps to any point along the way based on overall time.
>
> I think you're right that providing the ability to run backward would
> be a good add for the core feature set. The Repeater class still feels
> a little clunky to me and there's been some hints lately that it might
> be causing memory issues. Let's all discuss how it could be improved.
>
> Your branch will also require comprehensive management of start-states
> and retention of start-values, something that best done in tween
> subclasses. (Don't forget that you can extend other open-source
> packages like the Zaaz tween set, and/or design a custom manager
> system for random-access timelining.)
>
> BTW: another guy on this list who's already attacked this challenge is
> Robert Boyd. You can find his emails in the archives and might want to
> rally forces with him on this project. I've also found some need for
> this kind of thing and will be happy to jump in and help you guys
> create a solid extension for "scrubbable" sequences.
>
> In general, I really appreciate this level of thought toward making Go
> more univeral! Remember that over all Go is more of a proposal than a
> product, so let's keep shaping it.
>
> :-)
>
> Moses
>
>
>
> On Feb 23, 2009, at 4:12 PM, Jonathan Culp wrote:
>
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> I'm sorry if this has already been written about or discussed
>> before. I just joined the list, so I don't have anyway of telling.
>>
>> I've been following GO off and on for while. When I downloaded the
>> source and was really impressed with the modularity and clarity of
>> thought that it was created with. However, I kept waiting for
>> someone to write the perfect tweening class before I took used it on
>> a commercial project.
>>
>> Mostly what I was waiting for was for someone to write a tween and
>> tween sequence that could be easily reversed at any point. Long
>> story short, I got some free time at work today and wanted to take a
>> look at what would be involved in "rolling my own" tween class.
>>
>> Reversing an sequence was something I used to do in Fuse all the
>> time, but havn't seen implemented (well) in a Tweening package since
>> then. I don't mean to trivialize the difficulty involved with doing
>> that. But in recent years I've had to resort to timeline based
>> animations, in order to match the motion studies I get from
>> designers at work, which often contain long or many stepped
>> animation sequences. (I really hate the timeline)
>>
>> Having taken a look at the source code I was expecting to find some
>> kind of support for this but it doesnt appear to be there. I know
>> that repeater instances can be used to play an animation backwards,
>> but it seems, only once its finished. In order for me to add
>> immediate reverseable animation support, it looks like I would have
>> to subclass LinearGo, Playable Base, and SequenceBase in order to
>> make some heavy modifications to the behavior. Doing so would, I
>> feel break the spirit of modularity and extenseability thats at the
>> core of the GOEngine.
>>
>> Worse comes to worse, I will just subclass the core classes, but I
>> wanted to know if anyone considered making this part of the basic
>> functionality of the engine; is there an architectural reason that
>> I'm not understanding? that makes it a bad idea to do so? If this
>> one thing were addressed I really feel like GO would take off.
>>
>> Let me know what I can do to help
>> -Jonathan Culp
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