Re: [flasher] How to do alpha transparency in a loop?

[Werner Sharp]

You need to do one iteration of the for loop on each frame so it can update.


Add an onClipEvent (enterFrame) that starts at alpha of 0 and works up to 100.


At 10:30 AM 3/16/2001 +0000, you wrote:

>The idea is to make the calculator gradually appear when the

>button is clicked.

>

>I'm having a problem with this code which takes my

>movieclip and in increments of 10, changes the alpha

>transparency.  I know my "mcTheCalculator" mc is

>OK because if I take the setProperty line out of the

>loop and change TempAlpha in this line to "50",

>it works.  I have tried many variations of this code

>using "for","while",etc.

>

>The idea is to make the calculator appear when the

>button is clicked.

>

>do {

>    TempAlpha = x * 10;

>    setProperty ("_root.mcTheCalculator", _alpha, TempAlpha);

>    x = x + 1;

>   } while (X < 10);

>

>Thanks for any help.

>

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