package com.greensock.easing {
/**
 * EaseLookup enables you to find the easing function associated with a particular name (String), 
 * like "strongEaseOut" which can be useful when loading in XML data that comes in as Strings but 
 * needs to be translated to native function references.
 * 
 * <b>Copyright 2009, GreenSock. All rights reserved.</b> This work is subject to the terms in <a href="http://www.greensock.com/terms_of_use.html">http://www.greensock.com/terms_of_use.html</a> or for corporate Club GreenSock members, the software agreement that was issued with the corporate membership.
 * 
 * @author Jack Doyle, jack@greensock.com
 */
	public class EaseLookup {
		/** @private **/
		private static var _lookup:Object;
		
		/**
		 * Finds the easing function associated with a particular name (String), like "strongEaseOut". This can be useful when
		 * loading in XML data that comes in as Strings but needs to be translated to native function references. You can pass in
		 * the name with or without the period, and it is case insensitive, so any of the following will find the Strong.easeOut function: <br /><br /><code>
		 * EaseLookup.find("Strong.easeOut") <br />
		 * EaseLookup.find("strongEaseOut") <br />
		 * EaseLookup.find("strongeaseout") <br /><br /></code>
		 * 
		 * You can translate Strings directly when tweening, like this: <br /><code>
		 * TweenLite.to(mc, 1, {x:100, ease:EaseLookup.find(myString)});<br /><br /></code>
		 * 
		 * @param name The name of the easing function, with or without the period and case insensitive (i.e. "Strong.easeOut" or "strongEaseOut")
		 * @return The easing function associated with the name
		 */
		public static function find(name:String):Function {
			if (_lookup == null) {
				buildLookup();
			}
			return _lookup[name.toLowerCase()];
		}
		
		/** @private **/
		private static function buildLookup():void {
			_lookup = {};
			
			addInOut(Back, ["back"]);
			addInOut(Bounce, ["bounce"]);
			addInOut(Circ, ["circ", "circular"]);
			addInOut(Cubic, ["cubic"]);
			addInOut(Elastic, ["elastic"]);
			addInOut(Expo, ["expo", "exponential"]);
			addInOut(Linear, ["linear"]);
			addInOut(Quad, ["quad", "quadratic"]);
			addInOut(Quart, ["quart","quartic"]);
			addInOut(Quint, ["quint", "quintic", "strong"]);
			addInOut(Sine, ["sine"]);
			
			_lookup["linear.easenone"] = _lookup["lineareasenone"] = Linear.easeNone;
		}
		
		/** @private **/
		private static function addInOut(easeClass:Class, names:Array):void {
			var name:String;
			var i:int = names.length;
			while (i-- > 0) {
				name = names[i].toLowerCase();
				_lookup[name + ".easein"] = _lookup[name + "easein"] = easeClass.easeIn;
				_lookup[name + ".easeout"] = _lookup[name + "easeout"] = easeClass.easeOut;
				_lookup[name + ".easeinout"] = _lookup[name + "easeinout"] = easeClass.easeInOut;
			}
		}
		
		
	}
}