Duplicate MC and slide??

[flashpipe1]

I've got a clip that I want to duplicate and then slide onto the stage into a certain position, then duplicate again and slide next to the previous clip.

I've got the clips duplicating and positioning in their final location using:

// Change value of "clipName" to non-numeric portion of movieClip instance name.
clipName = "card";
// Get the height and width of movie.
movieHeight = _root._height;
movieWidth = _root._width;
// Get width of movieClip to be duplicated.
clipWidth = eval(clipName+"1")._width;
// Get total number of clips.
totalClips = Number(5);
// Generate clips.
for (i=1; i<totalClips; i++) {
duplicateMovieClip(clipName+i, clipName+(i+1), i+1);
eval(clipName+(i+1))._x = (eval(clipName+(i+1))._x)+5+clipWidth;
}
// Get height and width of this movieClip.
totalClipHeight = this._height;
totalClipWidth = this._width;
// Reposition to the center of the stage.
this._x = (movieWidth-totalClipWidth)/2;
this._y = movieHeight/2;


How would I make each clip slide from a specific location (240,340) into their respective locations???

TIA

[pkghost]

i would write a move function such as

code:

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speed=.4;

function slide(){

   var xDist=this.xTarget-this._x;

   var yDist=this.yTarget-this._y;

   this._x+=xDist*speed;

   this._y+=yDist*speed;

   if(xDist<.5){

      delete(this.onEnterFrame);

   }

}

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then define xTarget and yTarget values for each mc and assign the slide function to it like so

code:

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for(i=0;i<totalClips;i++){

   clip=attachMovie("clip", "clip"+i, i);

   clip.xTarget=i*(clip._width+20);

   clip.yTarget=i*(clip._height+20);

   clip.onEnterFrame=slide;

}

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and i would suggest using the attachMovie method instead of duplicateMovieClip, as it is easier to create an instance and reference directly after for purposes of setting props and functions, etc.. good luck

[flashpipe1]

Cool!! Very close...

I just want them to slide out one at a time, not all at once...and I need to be able to put a slight pause between each slide...
do-able?

THANKS!!!

[pkghost]

i havent done a lot of time based actionscripting so there might be a better way to do this but... here is all of the code including that which i already posted:

code:

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speed=.2;

function slide(){

        var xDist=this.xTarget-this._x;

        var yDist=this.yTarget-this._y;

        this._x+=xDist*speed;

        this._y+=yDist*speed;

        if(xDist<.5){

                delete(this.onEnterFrame);

        }

}





totalClips=5;

clips=0; //similar to the variable 'i' in the 'for' loop

frameRate=20;

delay=1; //seconds



//init is an empty movieclip on stage that this code can be run on

//this replaces the 'for' loop and instead duplicates the movies based on the framerate and delay variables

init.onEnterFrame=function(){

	frames++;

	if(frames%(delay*framerate)==0){

		if(clips<totalClips){

			clip=attachMovie("clip", "clip"+clips, clips);

    		clip.xTarget=clips*(clip._width+20);

			clip.yTarget=clips*(clip._height+20);

			clip.onEnterFrame=slide;

			clips++;

		}

	}

}

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that should do it!

[tristankelley]

hate to revive an old post like this but...

This sounds exactly like what I need but I can't get it to work. I have a bunch of diamonds I want to slide in next to each other but with the script above I can't even get anything to move.

Thanks for the help.

[pkghost]

could you be a little more specific about how you want your clips to move? where do they start/end up, when do they move.. etc. that will help us help you.

[tristankelley]

I want to have some duplicated diamond shaped (10px x 10px) mc's slide onto the stage. So the first mc would slide in from off stage to say about an x value of 700. Then right after that the second dulicated mc would slide in just to the left of the first one and so on. I hope this makes sense. Thanks again.

[tristankelley]

any ideas? thanks.