[F8] Dynamic text appears before menu does

[sfpiano]

I have a drop down menu with dynamically generated text. However the text appears before the menu drops down (there's a dropping animation and the text appears instantly before the animation actually completes). Also the text appears grainy and looks different from any other text in the scene. I have a 10 frame motion tween as the animation and on the 10th frame I have this code:

stop();

onEnterFrame = function() {
	for(i=1; i<10; i++) {
		mc = ciBox.duplicateMovieClip('ciBox'+i, this.getNextHighestDepth());
		mc.txt.text = (i+1)*0.1;
	}
	delete(onEnterFrame);
}

[nunomira]

hi,

I guess you'll have to make sure that the animation is at the frame you want it to be. For example, suppose you want the last frame:

code:

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animation_mc.onEnterFrame = function()

{

	if (this._currentframe == this._totalframes)

	{

		// show text here

		delete this.onEnterFrame;

	}

};

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The piece of code you have only waits one frame, so I guess it's pretty useless.
It's almost the same as

code:

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for (i = 1; i < 10; i++)

{

	mc = ciBox.duplicateMovieClip('ciBox' + i, this.getNextHighestDepth());

	mc.txt.text = (i + 1) * 0.1;

}

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You can verify that with this piece of code attached to the first frame of a timeline with more frames:

code:

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this.onEnterFrame = function()

{

	trace(_currentframe); // outputs 2

	delete this.onEnterFrame;

};

trace(_currentframe); // outputs 1

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