The one thing that traditional Flash applications have that Flex doesn’t is keyframes. Well no more. Flex 4 introduces Keyframe class that we can use to create animations from one keyframe to another to another. . .
Actually this isn’t anything hugely new. We could always animate from one property to another in a sequence which is pretty much all this dose. Keyframes just make it slightly easier and more intuitive.
Below is a simple explorer that lets you dynamically add keyframes to a motion path. When I say simple I really mean it. It just tweens the x/y values of the button. But it could just as well tween the z, or alpha, or any number of other properties.
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Chet Haase has an excellent short video intro that you should watch on keyframe animation in Flex 4.
