[RESOLVED] animated moving movie clip with actionscript 2.0

[jardane]

I have a movie clip that needs to move to a location when a button is pressed. I need the movement to be animated rather then just jump to the location. I think it would have something to do with affecting the movieclips _x and _y but i can't figure out how to make it animated.

[cultcreative]

you could animate it by hand on the timeline add a stop to the first frame and the end frame, and when you would like to have the animation start just add

myButtonName.onRelease = function ():Void { animationName.play(); }

that works well if it is only ever going to animation to one position, if you want it to go to a different position, you can do it with code using a Tween Library. There is one built into flash, but I always use third party engines. One of the more popular ones is GreenSock TweenLite. It is very simple and they have examples on their site (http://www.greensock.com/tweenlite/)

[jardane]

The movie clip is moving to one of five locations, i would rather use just action script. I know it can be done i just don't know quite how to do it.

[cultcreative]

like i said, check out the greensock site. they have examples and a little tool to help you through it

[Nig 13]

Give your movieclip an instance name of mc, and use this code on your frame:

speed = 10; // the higher the slower

mc.onEnterFrame = function(){
    this._x += (mouseX - this._x)/speed;
    this._y += (mouseY - this._y)/speed;
}

onMouseDown = function(){
    mouseX = _root._xmouse;
    mouseY = _root._ymouse;
}

[jardane]

Thanks Nig 13, can you explain how to use it? how is it activated when i click a button?

[jardane]

Never mind i figured it out.