Re: FLASH: new actionscript looping

[John Dowdell]

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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