RE: FLASH: Josh Davis is a tease.

[T.R. Henigson]

What I do is to test the if the xpos of the clip is within a minute

distance of the xpos of the target, for example, if the difference

in xpos is <.005. If so, then I just set the xpos of the clip to that

of the target with a Set Variable statement. Be careful, though,

because Flash seems to have some inaccuracies when dealing with

very small numbers. You may get a situation where the difference gets

down to some amount, eg .0035 and then doesn't get reduced anymore. If

you're testing for a difference less than .0035, you'd never get a true

condition. SO: Trace xpos, check the output, and maker sure your

conditional evaluates to true at some point.


Ted



> Did anyone get to see Josh Davis' fern lecture at FF2K last week?

>  i've been

> dying to download his source, but it's not available yet soooo ... lemmie

> ask:

>

> In order to slow his movie clips down when they reached the

> marker, he said

> he check the xpos of the clip, the xpos of the movie, divided by half and

> moved the clip that much.  (i *think* that's what he said)  He did that so

> the clip would move increasingly more slowly as it reached its target.

>

> What i can't understand is how the clip ever reached its target!  If you

> keep dividing the difference by half and moving that much, you'll NEVER

> reach your marker!

>

> Thanks for any help you can give me,

>

> Ryan Creighton

>

>

rcreightonytv [dot] com

>

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