[FMX] alpha fade (I know its been asked before)

programming flash
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I’ve searched the forums to no avail, so I now turn to the forums for the answers I seek.

I have this happening first:

_root.createEmptyMovieClip(“container”, 1);
loadMovie(“home.swf”, “container”);
container._x = 200;
container._y = 0 ;

Now, my navigation opens each swf into “container”
what I’d like to have happen is when you hover over a nav button, the “container” slowly dims, then fades back in when you move your mouse out.

I guess to get an idea of what im saying you should see what im saying www.flavoredclubbing.com/chocolate

All the forum posts about alpha fades involve putting actionscript into an MC…but if i am creating the MC on load…how do i put script into it…which is why I say that I have searched the forums to no avail. All the posts on this matter are for fading out buttons or MC’s that are already there and whatnot…which is not what i want to do.

Maybe I’m attacking this the wrong way? The reason I’m using the createEmptyMovieClip is for swf positioning when i do loadMovie.

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although I know Im not answering your fade question (because you already found answers on that one), I will say that you can reference your dinamically created mc (that you called container) from the main timeline. All you have to be sure of is that you’re not trying to reference “container” before it exists.

Also, if it is an mc within an mc, make sure you reference it properly, as in “whitbox_mc.container_mc”

now, if you put this information together with the other information on fades that you found… VOILA!!

good luck with your site.