TransitionManager.contentAppearance

Availability

Flash Player 6 (6.0.79.0).

Edition

Flash MX 2004.

Usage

transitionManagerInstance.contentAppearance

Description

Property (read-only); an object that contains a snapshot of the properties of the target movie clip of a TransitionManager instance before the transition is applied. This object is helpful for obtaining information about what property values you can expect the movie clip to return to after the transition completes. The object returned from TransitionManager.contentAppearance contains a recording of the original corresponding settings of the target movie clips in the following properties: _x, _y, _xscale, _yscale, _alpha, _rotation, _innerBounds, _outerBounds, _width, _height, and colorTransform. These properties are saved, and the TransitionManager.start() or TransitionManager.startTransition() method is called.

Example

The following example calls TransitionManager.contentAppearance() to get the original property settings of the TransitionManager object's target movie clip before the transition is applied:

import mx.transitions.*;
import mx.transitions.easing.*;
var myTransitionManager:TransitionManager = new TransitionManager(img1_mc);
myTransitionManager.startTransition({type:Zoom, direction:Transition.OUT, duration:3, easing:Bounce.easeOut});

var myMovieClip:MovieClip = myTransitionManager.content;
var myOriginalMovieClipProps:Object = myTransitionManager.contentAppearance;

for (var prop in myOriginalMovieClipProps) { 
 trace(myMovieClip._name + "." +prop+" = "+myOriginalMovieClipProps[prop]); 
}