Kevin Hoyt

I have a problem - I am addicted to online music services. I have an easily accessed bookmark to many of them on my browser, Firefox, of which I’m also very fond. One of Firefox’s many wonderful features is tabbed viewing. I have folders of links which I use to quickly open an entire set of reference materials, demonstrations, or whatever else the situation may call for at the time, with a simple click of the mouse. When I do this however, it blows away any of the existing tabs - including music service to which I’m currently listening. Now that’s really a problem!
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Flex has had effects since its initial release. The limitation of these effects is largely that they are all fundamentally linear in nature. You can move something in a straight line from Point A to Point B for example. You can fade a display object in and out, but again only as one continuously incremented/decremented animation. What if you wanted to move something along a curved path? What if you wanted to fade in and out at various levels along the path of that curve? Until Flash CS3, this is something that would have been particularly challenging, but we now have “Export Motion XML”.
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