AS re-sizing.... Need Help!!

[phallex]

I have a movie clip that I would like to scale up, then down with easing, as if it were "breathing".

But, I'd like to do it in ActionScript.

Right now, I have this:

The MC, called "MC" is on the main stage, with no actions.

Inside MC, I have it split into 3 "sections", each starting with a named frame,:

grow, shrink, and normal.

on the "grow" frame, I have:

code:

---

targetXsize = MC.ScaleDest;

targetYsize = MC.ScaleDest;



Xdiff = (MC.ScaleDest-MC._xscale);

Ydiff = (MC.ScaleDest-MC._yscale);

---

with MC's actions:

code:

---

onClipEvent(load){

	ScaleDest = 100 + 10;	

}



onClipEvent(enterFrame){

 if (_xscale < ScaleDest || _yscale < ScaleDest) {

 	_xscale += Math.ceil(ScaleDest-_xscale)*.2;

	_yscale += Math.ceil(ScaleDest-_yscale)*.2;

	currScale = _xscale;

 } 

}

---

And it does it a little different for the Shrink and Normal frames.

I'm guessing there's an easier way to do this, with Actionscript

Can anyone help out here?

[marshdabeachy]

Actually, I think what you're trying to do is called elasticity.

code:

---

MC._xscale = MC._yscale = 110;

MC.onEnterFrame = function() {

   var accel = (100-this._xscale)*.1;

   this.veloc += accel;

   this._xscale = this._yscale += this.veloc;

};

---

This will spring forever around an _xscale of 100, with a minimum value of 90 and a maximum of 110.

[phallex]

Cool!

Using THIS code, I got it to shrink, but that's all it does.

code:

---

onClipEvent(enterFrame){ 

	_xscale = _yscale = 110;

	accel = (100-_xscale)*.1;

	veloc += accel;

	_xscale = _yscale += veloc;

}

---

How can I get it to
shrink>slowly stop shrinking>stop>grow>slowly stop growing>stop -- then repeat the whole process again (all in ActionScript)??


ANYONE PLEASE HELP!!

[marshdabeachy]

You almost converted it to Flash 5 format correctly, except for one thing. It'll work like this:

code:

---

onClipEvent (load) {

	_xscale = _yscale=110;

}

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {

	accel = (100-_xscale)*.1;

	veloc += accel;

	_xscale = _yscale += veloc;

}

---

[phallex]

Yes!!

Excellent.... That works.