Re: FLASH: new actionscript looping

[Catherine Kunicki]

ya, spreading out the loop over frames was one approach I was wondering 

about.


the other thought I had was that placing the call to move the movieclip

inside the function is a bad idea. since the function (I have this placed in

a frame handler) is called from a button click, I wonder if nothing is

happening re: screen update because the function isn't done. ie, it hasn't

returned any values to the mousedown script that called it until its done

with the loop.


we'll see. I'll report back if I get it to go : )


c




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>

From: jdowdellmacromedia [dot] com (John Dowdell)

>

To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

>Subject: Re: FLASH: new actionscript looping

>Date: Wed, Sep 13, 2000, 2:26 PM

>


> At 7:59 AM 9/13/0, Catherine Kunicki wrote:

>>I have been trying to set the location of a movieclip via setPropery _x and

>>setProperty _y inside a loop.

>>

>>the movie is one frame, and I am getting traced values of the correct

>>locations, however the clip appears to be moving from just the originating

>>location to the destination location without seeing any of the intervening

>>steps.

>>

>>I am using a for..while loop inside a function.

>

> That's hard... it's like Director, when you use tight repeat loop, except

> there's no updateStage.

>

> Try using an open frame loop instead... pseudo-script:

>

>   on exitFrame

>     if _x < someValue then _x = _x + increment

>

>

> Theme: Scripts are meant for fast processing... get in, do something

> quickly, get back to the program to accept other events. If you want an

> extended action, then look into incrementally acting over a series of

> frames, so that everything else on the computer can still happen... don't

> stay inside a repeat loop for a perceptible amount of time.

>

> jd

> 


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