RE: FLASH: new actionscript looping

[Jon Williams]

I've actually built an actionscript "frameLoop" object

that I've been using to create frameLoops programmatically

on the fly...works great...tutorial coming soon...

You just specify what object, what method, and what arguments

for each "virtual frame." It's really sweet and makes a lot

of other things possible.


it's way way faster than having multiple "real" frameloops

playing in your movie.


coming soon...


-j


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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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