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Subject:	Re: FLASH: new actionscript looping
From:	Randy Kato
Date:	Wed, 13 Sep 2000 22:15:36 +0100

Catherine,

What's happening with your loop is that it's looping through and updating the
properties, but it's updating as fast as the processor can go -- faster than the
screen can redraw it or your eyes can see it. You still need a time-based loop,
but...

There's really no need for the F4 style multi-frame looping MC any more. Now you
can use onClipEvent(enterframe) to simulate the same thing. Put the script you
want into a single frame MC and load/access that MC when you want the script to
execute. This will execute the script every time that MC enters a frame -- even
if it's just a single frame MC it will 'hit' that frame continuously at the
framerate of the movie.

HTH,
Randy

Catherine Kunicki wrote:

> 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.

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