[FlashCodersNY] "Zoom" vBox along the z-depth

[Newen Fara]

I dodn' know much about using vBox.  but can't youplace that vBox inside a
sprite with AS, adn then scale the sprite?
i say this cause by changing the sprite, it changes everything inside it.

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 12:10 PM, geng wang <wanggeng at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am trying to do a "zoom out" kind of effect on a VBox in Flex and I
> soon realize it's not as easy as it seemed to me:)
>
> Say if you click a button, the vBox, which contains a list of 100
> images of slightly various sizes, zooms out (like camera zooms out
> along the z-depth) for a second and then zooms back in to it's
> original size.
>
> Currently I have tried Zoom effect and what I did was simply to
> zoomHeightFrom 1 to .5 and then reverse the effect. It quickly turned
> out to be wrong ;) since what I need is to scale *individual* image
> separately proportionally and let the vBox update the layout. Is this
> something I should do? (Like in a loop, scale each image->at the end
> of the loop, invalidate VBox, etc.)? Or there are any better/more
> correct approaches out there?
>
> I guess I could have used something like Papervision3D but it seems
> it's overkilled for things like this, along with the possible overhead
> on loading and other animations?
>
> Thanks.
>
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