Comments on: Queasy Tools Panel – New Flash CS3 Extension for Designers & Animators

By: Tan

Tan — Fri, 22 May 2009 10:48:02 +0000

Justin
That’s what I did for the installation, but it is not working.

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 21 May 2009 14:58:22 +0000

Tan,
Make sure you’re installing the extension with Extension Manager CS4. After a successful install, you’ll have to restart Flash in order to see the panel.

By: Tan

Tan — Wed, 20 May 2009 14:00:02 +0000

I can’t see the Quesy Tools in my Other Panels > Queasy Tools and I’m on CS4.

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:05:01 +0000

Hi Nicolas, thanks for the comment. Queasy Tools is compatible with CS4. The only difference is that the motion tweens that it creates are now called “Classic Tweens” in CS4. Other than that, everything should be the same as CS3.

By: Nicolas

Nicolas — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:58:10 +0000

This is a great tool! Thanks a lot for this. Hopefully this will be compatible with Flash CS4, I’m planning to buy it real soon.

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 06:31:56 +0000

Chris,

I’ve got a new version posted. It’s got strong easing and scale controls. It is possible to add filter controls, but I think I’ll hold off on those until I figure out a good way to implement them.

http://ajarproductions.com/blog/2008/07/15/queasy-tools-panel-v150/

Thanks again for your suggestions!

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:09:03 +0000

Thanks for the link, Chris. According to the documentation, "strong" easing is the same as "quintic" easing. Since Robert Penner created all of the easing equations used by Adobe, his easing chart is a great reference:

http://robertpenner.com/easing/easing_demo.html

I verified that the default easing is equivalent to "quadratic" easing, and I'll be able to use this chart to include Strong easing in the next release of Queasy Tools.

I'll keep you posted on the progress of the next release. Hopefully I'll have some time this week to work on it.

07/14/08 Update: I've got the Strong easing working. I'll work on the text bug next.

By: Chris L

Chris L — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:17:51 +0000

Wow. Thanks for getting back to me so quick. I know that Flash has a Strong easing function built in. It can be found in the fl.transitions.easing class I believe.

It can be referenced by the Strong.easeOut (or whatever)
You can read more about it here from the LiveDocs.

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/fl/transitions/easing/package-detail.html

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:01:24 +0000

Chris,

Thanks so much for your comments. I appreciate the feedback and I'm glad you're enjoying the tools. I think these are all good additions for the next version. I had considered some of them for the first release. I've also been milling on copy/paste buttons for scale. I want to also try and keep it to a manageable list of tools, so that will be an interesting challenge.

If you've got a good link for the strong easing (an equation or a graph would be even better) that you're using, please pass it along and I can use it as a model. I think Penner might have made a tool to visualize his easing equations (the most common ones), so I can look into that.

Thanks for the note about the bug as well. I remember those text tools were a bit tricky to put together. I'll look into that and see if I can find a way to fix it.

By: Chris L

Chris L — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:43:23 +0000

I love this extension! It’s been very helpful!

I would love to see Strong Easing built in as well (my personal animation fav) more than anything else.
Maybe a default of scaling actions too (150%, 100%, 50%). And finally (if possible), some basic filter effect presets (Blurs, etc).

Thanks so much & great work on a very useful extension!

BUG REPORT : I also noticed when selecting multiple instances with text in them, and I select the capital option, it puts all the text from all the capitalize text fields in each instance.