This could be handy someday, I'm going to download and take a look at the code. Thanks!

Looks great. Very cool to play with. The reflection is off though.

Looks great. Very fun to play with. The reflection is off a bit though.

Looks sweet, but yeah - the reflections is having a hard time keepin' up :)

Yea, thats strange... I just tossed my Reflection class on there for effect.

The reflection gets out of sync from the swinger because it is being updated on a interval timer and the swinger is changing the clip rotation in a tween (and then then reflection update happens 'some time' later).

It looks like the reflection was added as an after effect but just for kicks I made a version with changes to have the swinger class optionally create the reflection itself, and if so then to handle the update of the reflection whenever the swinger actually moves.

http://timmaffett.com/source/swingerSyncedReflection.html

sources here: http://timmaffett.com/source/swingerSyncedReflection.zip

the changers were minor and easy because the code was nice and clean, well architected...

Very interesting, I think this would be nicer with a bouncing ball, thanks , Keep Kool, Peace

thanks this help me a lot, but i have a question. How can i apply to several objects? i want to use the swing effect on my buttons how can i apply it to other three?

Multiple objects would be easy and might look something like this:

import com.pixelfumes.Swinger;
var s:Swinger = new Swinger(shape_mc);
var s2:Swinger = new Swinger(another_mc);

hi
i have another question. Could swinger has button function? I mean when click it will load external swf file. Is it possible?
Thanks

You could modify the class to handle the click event by adding a click event listener to it, sure.

This is great thank you. I'm going to see if I can mod it to react when another mc hits it - as part of a kind of chain-reaction - or domino effect - animation I'm working on.

Hi, this is excellent. I have some questions. How to make object swing without mouse interaction?
I want to make one object swing on load and after few seconds to stop slowly.
Thanks.

Great effect.
How can i do the rolling number effect?

AS3 converted version:

package com.pixelfumes
{

import flash.display.*;
import flash.events.*;
import fl.transitions.*;
import fl.transitions.easing.*;
import flash.utils.*;
import flash.net.*;
import flash.text.TextField;

public class SwingerAS3 extends MovieClip
{
private var clip:MovieClip;
private var force:Number = 20;
private var _force:Number = force;
private var n:Number = 0;
private var _n:Number = n;
private var friction:Number = .5;
private var _friction:Number = friction;
private var interactionOrigin:String = "left";
private var wait:Boolean = true;
private var kickTween:Tween;

public function SwingerAS3(m:MovieClip)
{
clip = m;
clip.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, swing);
//clip.onRollOver = Delegate.create(this,swing);
}

public function setParamaters(o:Object):void
{
clip.removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, renderSwing);
//delete clip.onEnterFrame;
kickTween.stop();
clip.rotationZ = 0;
force = o.force;
friction = o.friction;
_force = force;
_friction = friction;
wait = o.wait;
n = 0;
}

public function swing(event:MouseEvent):void
{
if (n == 0 || wait == false)
{
interactionOrigin = getFromDirection();

force = _force;
n = _n;
friction = _friction;

if (interactionOrigin == "left")
{
force = _force * -1;
kickTween = new Tween(clip,"rotationZ", Regular.easeOut, clip.rotationZ, Math.cos(n) * force,.2,true);
kickTween.addEventListener(TweenEvent.MOTION_FINISH, render);
//kickTween.onMotionFinished = Delegate.create(this,render);
}
else
{
force = _force;
kickTween = new Tween(clip,"rotationZ",Regular.easeOut,clip.rotationZ,Math.cos(n) * force,.2,true);
kickTween.addEventListener(TweenEvent.MOTION_FINISH, render);

//kickTween.onMotionFinished = Delegate.create(this,render);
}

clip.removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, renderSwing);

//delete clip.onEnterFrame;
}
}

private function render(event:TweenEvent):void
{
kickTween.stop();
clip.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, renderSwing);
//clip.onEnterFrame = Delegate.create(this,renderSwing);
}


public function getMomentum():String
{
trace(n);
return n.toString();
}

private function renderSwing(event:Event):void
{
//http://www.blogaboutflash.com/2007/02/using-mathcos-to-make-object-swing.html
n += 0.3;
clip.rotationZ = Math.cos(n)*force;
if (interactionOrigin=="left")
{
if (force-friction<0)
{
force+=friction;
}
else
{
n=0;
clip.removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, renderSwing);
//delete clip.onEnterFrame;
}
}
else
{
if (force-friction>0)
{
force-=friction;
}
else
{
n=0;
clip.removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, renderSwing);
//delete clip.onEnterFrame;
}
}
}

private function getFromDirection():String
{
if (clip.mouseX<0)
{
return "left";
}
else
{
return "right";
}
}
}


}// end package