slide effect for stageWebView

Another method is to take a picture of the stageWebView offstage, slide (tween) the pic object onto the stage, and then reposition the stageWebView rect onstage and remove the pic. I'm doing this in my app and it works quite well.

"You definitely won't be able to do a fade in (there is no alpha for StageWebView)"

I imagine you could use the technique I describe to achieve a fade-in or other transition effects, too.

If you're interested in this technique, however, it'd probably be much easier to write the "pic capture" code using the UIWebview ANE extension. (I know will for my next project)

http://darkredz.com/ios-uiwebview-and-videoplayer-native-extension-for-air-mobile/

Cheers!

You definitely won't be able to do a fade in (there is no alpha for StageWebView), but a slide in is certainly possible.

This is entirely untested, but it should give the effect of a slide in.

private function addedToStage():void{
        var t:Timer = new Timer(1000/stage.frameRate,100); //100 is repeat count. The Timer will run 100 times before finishing. You can always change this
          t.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER,this.slideIn);
          t.start();
}
private function slideIn(e:TimerEvent = null):void{
          swv.viewPort = new Rectangle(swv.viewPort.x + PER_FRAME_MOVEMENT,Y,WIDTH,HEIGHT);
}

swv is obviously your StageWebView. Make sure addedToStage() is not run until AFTER the parent has been added to the stage, otherwise stage.frameRate will error out with a null reference.

Just to give an idea of how to use this, say your SWV was 100px wide. You would set the initial viewport to be new Rectangle(-100,Y,WIDTH,HEIGHT). If you wanted to stick 100 frames (between 3 and 4 seconds if framerate is 24-30fps), you would set PER_FRAME_MOVEMENT to 1 and it would slide to x=0 in those 3-4 seconds, 1 pixel at a time.

Obviously you can make it move faster or slower by messing with the repeat count and the PER_FRAME_MOVEMENT but you get the idea. You could also work some math into this so that the PER_FRAME_MOVEMENT is automatically calculated based on the original X position and the repeat count (maybe PER_FRAME_MOVEMENT = ( TargetX - StartingX ) / RepeatCount would do it).

Hope that helps