Moving mc with AS...for gallery.

[The Krook]

On the main timeline i have a mc and two buttons.
The mc is just a bunch of pictures side by side - this mc is masked.

With the two buttons - next and previous - I want the mc to move and ease back and forth on the x-axis a certain number of pixels (584 actually), as these buttons are released.
So when i press the next button the mc moves 584 to the left, and if I press it again it moves another 584 px to the left. If I press the previous it moves 584px to the right.

I have this code which works fine one time - theres no previous code.

pixels = 584;
dX = (pics_mc._x-pixels); // X DESTINATION
mSpeed = 5; // THE SPEED - THE HIGHER THE NUMBER THE LOWER THE SPEED

	function movenext () {
		_root.pics_mc.onEnterFrame = function() {
		pics_mc._x += (dX-pics_mc._x)/mSpeed;
		}
	
}

Thank you

[jbum]

This is the line that is controlling where you move to:

dX = (pics_mc._x - pixels);

The problem is, it always sets dX (the destination X coordinate) to the same position (the current position minus 584).

Instead, start out with

dX = pics_mc._x;

When you want to move in one direction (say, on the click of a button), say:

dX = dX + 584;

And when you want to move in the other direction, say:

dX = dX - 584;

[The Krook]

jbum to the rescue once again - thank you.

I actually found another AMAZING way of doing this while waiting for an answer here: http://www.actionscript.org/tutorial...ed/index.shtml

It seems there are some undocumented features of MX2004 which are absolutely perfect for what im doing and very powerful.
They consist of several new tween and ease methods - look at the link for all of them.

This is my code now:

code:

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pixels = 584

right_bt.onRelease = function() {

        tweenmc();

}

function tweenmc() {

        easeType = mx.transitions.easing.Regular.easeOut;

        var begin = pics_mc._x;

        var end = pics_mc._x-pixels;

        var time = .5;

        var mc = pics_mc;

        Tween = new mx.transitions.Tween(mc, "_x", easeType, begin, end, time, true);

}



left_bt.onRelease = function() {

        tweenmcreverse();

}

function tweenmcreverse() {

        easeType = mx.transitions.easing.Strong.easeOut;

        var begin = pics_mc._x;

        var end = pics_mc._x+pixels;

        var time = .5;

        var mc = pics_mc;

        Tween = new mx.transitions.Tween(mc, "_x", easeType, begin, end, time, true);

}

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