Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Transform Tool - live transformation

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! 
Today I'm going to speak a little bit about PowerPoint transformation model. You may notice that it doesn't have live update of objects during transformation, but it has some kind of preview. I've added similar functionality, you can turn it on setting liveTransformation property of TransformTool into false, it will use target snapshot during transformation. For some cases (e.g. for text target) it is not good idea to use snapshot so I've added another option to use some cover instead. To turn it on you need to set showPreviewCover property of TransformTool into true. If you are using custom skin make sure that skin parts preview and previewCover is defined. See following example. Press view source context menu to get source code. 

SWC: Transform Tool 2 version 2.3.7.
Source code: Project home page.
ASDoc:  API ASDoc.
Required Flex SDK version: SDK 4.5

3 comments:

  1. Hi Dude,
    Your tool is awesome. This what I am exactly needed. Is there any possible to change location of the connectors and create my own connector(may be for delete the selected object...)? Thanks in advance.

    With Regards,

    Arun Ganesh. P

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  2. Hi, sorry for delay, your post for some reason was treated as spam by google :) I don't understand about changing location of the connectors. Concerning creating your own connector, yes you can, you just need to implement IConnector interface.

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  3. wow, there seems to be many updates happening to this tool. This is getting much better then objecthandles, but still lacking text editing and keyboard controls. But still love it!!

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