Re: FLASH: fading background

[Russell E. Unger]

I'm not a genious at the TT's, either, but I've picked them up and it has made a

lot of things really clear to me.  DartFrog-boy's probably our resident genious,

and Kevin Jackson is probably his biggest cheerleader, but, here goes:


Create a Movie Clip (MC)

Within the movie clip place a square, and let's say that it is a square, for our

purposes here.

Then, using your Inspector, alter the size to match your Main Movie

Make it the color of your choice and place an action of Stop in the MC timeline.


Now, here's one thing you can do:


You can create a tween (in the MC) that goes from start color to another color and

give it a label of "Change" for this example.  Also, give a STOP action at the last

frame of this tween.


Place this movie clip on your Main Movie, and as your bottom-most layer.  Go to

Definition and name the instance "background".


>From some other point, and just for grins and giggles, make a quickie little

button.

Under Action, select "Tell Target".  Flash does the "onRelease" stuff for you (how

nice!).  Then, select the Movie Clip and instance stuff (it should be relatively

obvious).  Tell your next action to be "Go To" select the Play box and select the

Label of "Change".  The label won't be there for you b/c it's in the MC, not the

Main Movie.


This will cause your movie clip to play and change background colors, I believe.


Marc, could you double-check this and see if I missed anything?  This is all from

my own thought-process as opposed to working through it...


But, wait, there's more!


> How can you modify the main movie's properties from withn this action? I know

> you can make a movie clip play or stop, or go to certain frame,.. but how do

> you modify other symbols or the movie?


You won't be modifying the main movie's properties; and I do not believe you can

actually do that on the fly.  I hope I've covered this clearly for you, but knowing

me, I somewhat doubt it!


Best of luck,


Russ



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