Re: FLASH: Help with a short ActionScript

[Jordan L. Chilcott]

You cannot put your 'shaker' in a tight loop of this sort. You are changing the properties of the movie clip before the frame head has a chance to move. Therefore, nothing will get updated (JD refers to this as a tight loop - he enlightened me with this while taking over a Director project). You are best to separate your code into three frames (updating your mc properties in each frame) and looping through those frames.


Hope this helps...


jord

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------

>> I am trying to make a movie clip that will "shake" its

>> parent MC, i.e. change the X position to X + 15 and x -15

>> in rapid succession.

>> 

>> I have created the MC ("shaker") and placed it in the time-

>> line of the parent MC.  However, I know I've done something(s?)

>> wrong because when I export, the parent MC does no shaking

>> whatsoever.

>> 

>> Can anyone look at the code for "shaker" and tell me what I'm

>> doing wrong?

>> 

>> Thanks,

>> 

>> shelley

>

> shelleykismia [dot] com

>> ----------------

>> Here's the code:

>> 

>> Set Variable: "count" = "0"

>> Set Variable: "horiz" = GetProperty ( "../", _x )

>> Set Variable: "horizadd" = horiz + 15

>> Set Variable: "horizsub" = horiz - 15

>> Loop While (count < 10)

>> Set Property ("../", X Position) = "horizadd"

>> Set Property ("../", X Position) = "horizsub"

>> Set Property ("../", X Position) = "horiz"

>> Set Variable: "count" = count + 1

>> End Loop

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