making a simple power bar

Hi,

I want to add a simple power bar to one of my games. I want it to scroll up and down quickly and stop somewhere between 0-100% when the player presses a button or clicks the mouse. It needs to work on a relatively slow frame rate - ie. 15fps.

I tried drawing a rectangle and using a " onClipEvent (enterFrame)... _xscale++ " type script, but this makes the rectabgle scroll up and down much too slowly.

Can anyone briefly outline a better way of doing it ???

Thanks in advance ...

Ben

Make a 100 px bar, and put this code in it:

Make sure the bar is aligned to the left of the little circle marking the middle of the MC

Code:

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onClipEvent (load) {
        speed = 10;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
        if (_xscale+speed>100 || _xscale+speed<0) {
                speed *= -1;
        }
        _xscale += speed;
}
onClipEvent (mouseDown) {
        // Do whatever. Power = _xscale;       
}

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