Foundation Flash Catalyst

Chapter 4. Animation in Catalyst

What we'll cover in this chapter:

• Animating across states using transitions

• Tweaking transitions

• Adding custom actions to transitions

• Creating actions sequences

Files used in this chapter:

• animationExample-start.fxp

• animationExample-complete.fxp

Catalyst is very good at giving you the ability to quickly add animation to a design. This reinforces how the application ultimately responds to the user. It also allows you to finely control and define how the objects respond, rather than passing that work on to the developer.

Animation in Catalyst is primarily done by controlling the changes in object properties across states. If ...