this should be REALLY easy....but it's not working

[Karacature]

I was trying to control a popup textbox with AS, but I couldn't get the tween to reset and be reused. Finally gave up and just animated the text box to pop up instead. I am able to get it to play if I use

Object(this).popUpAnim_mc.gotoAndPlay("anim");

however, as soon as I put it in a function, it stops working. The trace, however does come up so the function itself is fine.

this.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,popAnim);
function popAnim(event:Event):void{
	Object(this).popUpAnim_mc.gotoAndPlay("anim");
	trace("anim");
}

I will be adding an 'if statement' to this code and control whether or not it plays or is static with information from an array. But I can't even get it to run just in a simple function. what am I overlooking??

Thanks!

[nstanziani]

Why is it in an onEnterFrame? depending on your frame rate you're calling the "gotoAndPlay" 24 times/second.... so you keep going back to the initial frame "anim"
What exactly are you trying to accomplish when you say

trying to control a popup textbox with AS

?

[Karacature]

What else could I use instead of EnterFrame? I'm trying to figure out how to trigger an event or even change a variable's value on each frame of the main timeline.

I'm trying to use an array to set yes or no values (I tried a boolean, but that didn't seem to work either) for different frame numbers (of the main timeline), and control which frames the pop up box slides in from offscreen, and which it remains in place as the user clicks through a simple slideshow. For example, if there are four slides (four frames of the main timeline) and I want the popup box to slide in for the first frame and the last frame, but to stay static for the second and third frames.

I don't even know if I am explaining what I need correctly. :\

[dawsonk]

import fl.transitions.*;
import fl.transitions.easing.*;
import flash.events.Event;

var myTween:Tween = new Tween(PopUp_mc,"y",Strong.easeOut,PopUp_mc.y,300,1,true);
var lastFrame:int = -1;
addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, upDate);

function upDate(e:Event):void {
        if (lastFrame != currentFrame) {
                lastFrame = currentFrame;
                trace("The frame has changed to " + currentFrame);
                if (currentFrame == 1 || currentFrame == 4) {
                        new Tween(PopUp_mc,"y",Strong.easeOut,PopUp_mc.y,300,1,true);
                } else {
                        new Tween(PopUp_mc,"y",Strong.easeOut,PopUp_mc.y,500,1,true);
                }
        }
}