ActionScript 2.0 :: Class To Hide MovieClips Until Animating In?
Mar 2, 2009
For the majority of projects that I create, I have an intro animation for all the movieclips on the stage, so that they do not just appear like HTML at once. The problem with this is that I do not animate in buttons and interactive movieclips on the main timeline (I use internal frames to animate. Frame 2 is always .onRollOver, Frame 11 is always .onRollOut, Frame 50 is movieAnimationIn, etc). This means that Frame 1 needs to have an alpha level of 0, so that no one sees the MovieClip until I fade it in with intro animation.
This is a pain in Debugging/IDE mode, if I need to edit the movieclip, since I have to find the little white dot (transform starting point) and double click it to view inside the movieclip from the stage. I try to create intro animation last since it usually hides all the movieclips and makes editing them annoying!
Is there a framework/class/package available that would hide all the movieclips I place in an array in the first frame of the movie and then show them once I choose to fade it in? I think I could write one myself, but I didn't want to re-invent the wheel.
This would be a greatly increase productivity to many Flash Developers.
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