Oops... I think I did something strange at the end of my post there!

On Dec 26, 1:05 pm, Michal <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> @brooklynDev:
>
> - Can I ask how your aim is different to the example of rpflo 
> athttp://ryanflorence.com/sandbox/mootools/Fx.Morph/?
> - Is it that you would like to create the sliding menu as more of
> "step" show: each new item item in a menu is revealed in a very quick
> "step", which the steps getting faster. If so I have a few suggestions
> as to how this could be done better:
>       - You could define your own Fx.Transition. This could be in the
> form of a "step" function that has "jumps" to quickly jump the
> animation. This might have to be uniquely defined for each menu length
> to get the jumps at the correct places.
>       - You could avoid using Fx.Morph or Tween at all (except for the
> opacity changes), using Chain. Each step of the chain will just set
> the appropriate style to reveal the next bit of the menu after an
> appropriate delay. I suspect you might need to use arrays of functions
> to keep it general, maybe created using the "pass" function...? This
> I'm not too sure on though.
>
> Also
> - I notice that lotos of new Fx.Morph instances seem to be created for
> each animation. Whatever method you use, I think it might be more
> efficient to create all these instance on instantiation of the class
> This might also solve  your link/cancel problem (although I'm unclear
> as to exactly what it was).
>
> Michal.
>
> Can I ask. However, maybe I'm not sure what you're trying to acheive.
> However,
>
> On Dec 25, 3:02 am, brooklynDev <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure that link:cancel would help with my problem as I believe
> > linking functionality only works within the same instance of an effect
> > and also I'd like the two animations in question to continue to run in
> > parallel to each other if and when they meet. This is contrary to the
> > first effect being stopped in it's tracks ala link:cancel (which is
> > basically the unwanted behavior I'm getting now).

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