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Flippin' Cool Spry Goodness
Sep 1st
As followers of this blog know, I am a pretty big fan of Adobe's JavaScript framework, Spry. Admittedly, it's not a super-huge framework like jQuery, but I like its simplicity and how rapidly I can develop a solution with it.
One thing I've been frustrated with is Spry's effects. While they have some good effects, I never found them particularly flexible or usable beyond little dynamic enhacements. Apparently, most of this is because I hadn't read the documentation enough.
Enter effect clustering. Normally, Spry effects run in turn of function call: so if you have, say, a tool-tip that you want to fade out and move, these effects would run in order (which wouldn't really make sense to do anyway). However, as I discovered with great joy yesterday, Spry allows for something called "effect clustering" which allows any number of effects to be run in parallel with one another.
I about peed my pants when I found this out, it's so cool and useful. So here's an example of this in action.
And here's the code:
FadeMove = function(element, options) { Spry.Effect.Cluster.call(this, options); var duration = 1000; var toggle = 'false'; var from = 100; var to = 0; var fromPos = new Spry.Effect.Utils.Position(); fromPos.x = More >