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I've noticed how a lot of nice Flash based sites build their page one piece
at a time or one group at a time. For example, the main menu fades in
first. After the main menu fades in, picture one fades in and floats to a
defined spot on the stage. After it finishes floating, another thing will
happen and so on... How do you control that in a scripted environment? It
makes sense how to do it with a timeline, but I didn't know if there was a
conventional way of sequencing your Floats/Fades/etc... I thought that
maybe defining a variable that changes at the completion of the function and
using a watch for that variable change to call the next function with an
incrementer. This sounds kind of ugly to me, so I was hoping there was a
better way of doing this. Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks!
- Matt
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=535491015-20022004>I've noticed how a
lot of nice Flash based sites build their page one piece at a time or one
group
at a time. For example, the main menu fades in first. After the
main
menu fades in, picture one fades in and floats to a defined spot on the
stage. After it finishes floating, another thing will happen and so
on... How do you control that in a scripted environment? It makes
sense how to do it with a timeline, but I didn't know if there was a
conventional way of sequencing your Floats/Fades/etc... I thought that
maybe defining a variable that changes at the completion of the function and
using a watch for that variable change to call the next function with an
incrementer. This sounds kind of ugly to me, so I was hoping there was a
better way of doing this. Anyone have any ideas?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=535491015-20022004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
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class=535491015-20022004>Thanks!</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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</SPAN>Matt</FONT></FONT></P></BODY></HTML>
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