jackdoyle
commented
10 years ago It's much easier to get the transform data like this:
var scaleX = yourElement._gsTransform.scaleX;
var rotation = yourElement._gsTransform.rotation;
...All of the transform properties are stored there. We haven't made this part of the public API docs just because we weren't 100% sure we wanted to be committed to it long-term. But over time, we have heard many requests for that data (mostly in the forums) and we have told people about the _gsTransform object, so I suppose the cat is out of the bag :)
We're not ready to commit to a full-fledged "get" method because it's a lot more complicated that it may seem, because there are quite a few properties that may not fit nicely into a simplistic API like that and we have to analyze that. But I think the most critical ones for animators are the transform-related values like scaleX, scaleY, rotation, x, y, z, rotationX, rotationY, skewX, etc. and those are all very easily accessible in the _gsTransform object.
Have fun!
Sometimes I wish there was a getter for CSS properties included in GSAP. CSSPlugin has a few methods just for that but they could be made public and perhaps documented.
Why? CSSPlugin works great to parse transforms, for example. Here's what I'm using it for: http://codepen.io/bfred-it/pen/thogH
EDIT:
TweenLite._plugins.scrollTo.max()would also be nice