Forcing animation to play to end?

Question

Hi all
I have an animation effect that uses TranslateTransient. It plays when a mouseover event occurs and auto reverses from screen left to right and back to left. When the mouseexit event is detected on the triggering object I need to have the animation play to the end such that the image being animated finished back at its start possiton on the left of the screen. I need the animation to complete smoothly so just using pause() or stop() on the translation isn't good enough. I've tried setting the duration to 2 which works fine if the current duration count is 2 or less but no good if the cycle has been running for a while.
Is there any way to get the current cycle count or some other way of doing something like playToEnd(even)? Kind of surprised not to see such a feature.
Edited by: Cenotaph on Jul 16, 2010 4:14 PM

Answer 1

Ah, it was less obvious than I thought. I found out that action() function in a Transition is called at the end of the forward movement, but not at the end of the backward one, when autoReverse is true! Very annoying.
Similarly, if I change the byX value of an existing transition, it doesn't appear to take the new value in account...
I found out a working solution, there might be more elegant/simple ones, but at least mine works! :-)
var scene: Scene;
var animated: Node;
Stage
    title: "Forum Test"
    scene: scene = Scene
        width: 500
        height: 500
        fill: Color.MINTCREAM
        content:
            Ellipse
                centerX: 250
                centerY: 250
                radiusX: 100
                radiusY: 100
                fill: Color.AQUA
                onMouseEntered: StartAnimation
                onMouseExited: StopAnimation
            animated = Circle
                centerX: 250
                centerY: 250
                radius: 50
                fill: Color.PURPLE
var bRestart: Boolean;
def transitions: Transition[] = [ GetTransition(100), GetTransition(-100) ];
var currentTransition: Integer;
function StartAnimation(me: MouseEvent): Void
    bRestart = true;
    currentTransition = 0;
    transitions[currentTransition].playFromStart();
function StopAnimation(me: MouseEvent): Void
    bRestart = false;
function GetTransition(x: Number): Transition
    def translation: TranslateTransition = TranslateTransition
        duration: 1s
        node: animated
        byX: x
        action: function (): Void
            if (bRestart)
                currentTransition = 1 - currentTransition;
                transitions[currentTransition].playFromStart();
            else if (currentTransition == 0) // Must go back!
                transitions[1].playFromStart();
}