slowly increasing alpha effect

[biggoose80]

What i am trying to do is when a botton is clicked, it will sent a movie instance to another frame and stop. where it stops i have another movie that is 100 layers and 1 frame. on that movie i am trying to get it to loop and display a slowly insreasing alpha effect. this is the code i have and im not sure what im doing wrong.

onClipEvent (load) {
setProperty (this, _alpha, 0);
i = 0
z = 0
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
do {
z = 0
a = random(5);
i = i+a;
if (i>100) {
i = 100;
}
setProperty (this, _alpha, i);
do{
z++
} while (z<1000)
}while (i<100);
}
this code only seems to display the movie when its at 100% alpha. any help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks

[smilerroberts]

Have you tried putting the var z into another movieclip?
call that one "alpha" then...

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
setProperty (this, _alpha, _root.alpha:z);
if (_root.alpha:z<100) {
i = random(5);
_root.alpha:z = _root.alpha:z + i;
}
}

not completly sure if thats gunna help.
Simon

[Edited by smilerroberts on 07-03-2001 at 11:25 AM]

[enemem]

you can't use a while loop in this way - the frame only gets redrawn once the actionscript has finished executing, ie. when the alpha is at 100%

so simply change the alpha value once in every loop, something like

onClipEvent(enterFrame){
i = random(5);
_alpha = Math.min(_alpha+i,100);

if(_alpha == 100)
gotoAndPlay("fadeFinished");
}

will ened some customisation to suit your exact needs but you can see what's going on anyway

- n.