stopping a blur tween

[noelbailey]

In this game I dynamically load 9 random pictures onto the stage. They all start off with maximum blur. The idea is that when the user hears a sentence the pictures gradually lose their blur. The sooner the correct picture is clicked on, the higher the score.

My problem is, I can't stop the tween when the user clicks on a picture. I've tried it successfully on a much simpler fla, where the images are already on the stage and not loaded from an external source.

Can anyone help?

Here's my extracted code - the source fla is way too long to attach.

import mx.transitions.Tween;
import mx.transitions.easing.Strong;
import flash.filters.*;
import mx.controls.Loader;


var totalBlur:Number = 100;//100 is maximum blur, I think
var noBlur   :Number = 0;

var blur:BlurFilter = new BlurFilter(totalBlur, totalBlur, 3);
var blurTween:Tween;

function removeBlur() // this works fine
    {
        var blurTween= new Tween(blur, "blurX", Regular.easeIn, blur.blurX, noBlur, 8.0, true);
        
        blurTween.onMotionChanged = function() 
        { 
        blur.blurY = blur.blurX;
        randomPic.filters = new Array(blur);
        } // end of removeBlur function
        

function stopBlurTween() // this does not stop the tween!!!

    { trace("stopBlur function called"); // the function gets called okay.

        for (f:Number = 0;f<9;f++)
        {
        _root.container3_mc["randomPic"+f].blurTween.stop();
        }
        
    } // end of stopBlur function
        


for (var i:Number = 0; i<9; i++)
{
    this.randomPic = _root.container3_mc.createEmptyMovieClip ("randomPic"+i, i);
    randomPic._x = (offsetX*(i%cols))+60;// this sets how far in from left the grid is
    randomPic._y = (offsetY*Math.floor (i/cols))+30;
    removeBlur (randomPic);

    
    var mcLoader:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader ();
    
    var listener:Object = new Object ();
    listener.onLoadInit = function (target:MovieClip):Void 
    {
        target.onRelease = function ()
        {   stopBlurTween();
            if (ready)
            {
                attempts = attempts+1;

                if (this._name == "randomPic"+correctAnswer)
                {
                    trace "correct");
                }
                else
                {
                    trace ("false");
                    
                    };
                }
            }
        };
    };
    mcLoader.addListener (listener);
    mcLoader.loadClip (randomPicArray[i],randomPic); // loads jpegs from a random arrayinto the 'randomPic' movie clip
}
clearInterval (myTimer);
myTimer = setInterval (playRandomSound, 1000);

var myRandomSound:Sound = new Sound ();
myRandomSound.onLoad = function (success:Boolean)
{
    if (success)
    {
        myRandomSound.start ();
        myRandomSound.onSoundComplete = function ()
        {
            ready = true;
        };
        // changed this from my_sound but it makes no difference - why?
    }
};
function playRandomSound ()
{
    ready = false;
    clearInterval (myTimer);
    myRandomSound.loadSound (randomSoundArray[correctAnswer],true);
}

[hts5000]

try:

blurTween.stop();

becasue you are using this:

var blurTween= new Tween(blur, "blurX", Regular.easeIn, blur.blurX, noBlur, 8.0, true);

and the stop function is right below it you do no t need to use any type of for loop.