### Author:  [@invisible7](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/invisible7)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2003, 5:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-reallyreallystumped/19319/1 "2003-04-26T17:32:09Z")
Ok, I have a simple action where the position of the mouse causes a section of the stage to fade out or in with the use of an alpha mask inside a 2nd mc. For some reason, the fade doesn’t work. When triggered by the mouse position, the alpha just pops out or in w/o the keyframed fade. To make things more curious, if I remove the quotes from around either “fadeout” or “fadein” in the code below, the “fadeout” portion will work, but not the “fadein”. Have tried a number of purmutations of script w/ no luck. (the\_parent. stuff is because the whole movie gets loaded into a master movie.)
Any help greatly appreciated!!
this is the script on the mc containing the alpha fade.
onClipEvent (load) {
gotoAndStop(1);
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (\_parent.\_xmouse\>660) {
\_parent.emptyMC.gotoAndPlay(“fadeout”);
} else if (\_parent.\_xmouse\<660) {
\_parent.emptyMC.gotoAndPlay(“fadein”);
}
}
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2003, 5:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-reallyreallystumped/19319/2 "2003-04-26T17:35:53Z")
you can’t change the alpha of a mask. :-\
you’d need to fade in/out whatever the mask is covering.
**edit.** sorry… i meant to say you can’t change the alpha value of a mask. 😛
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2003, 7:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-reallyreallystumped/19319/3 "2003-04-26T19:44:33Z")
But the point of the mask is to have a changing alpha. Half of the operation works (fadeout), but only when fadein is not in “”. I wanted to attach an example.fla, but that option is not available in this reply form. I’ll (sorry) repost with the .fla.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2003, 7:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-reallyreallystumped/19319/4 "2003-04-26T19:47:22Z")
wait! you can attach your fla… just click here \\
\ 😉
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2003, 8:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-reallyreallystumped/19319/5 "2003-04-26T20:08:40Z")
here it is.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2003, 8:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-reallyreallystumped/19319/6 "2003-04-26T20:11:24Z")
ehmm… the .zip is empty!? :-\
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2003, 8:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-reallyreallystumped/19319/7 "2003-04-26T20:25:40Z")
Ok, that was stupid, but…
i’m going crazy!! my fla is 296k, but that’s over the max size, so i zip it and it’s 212k, but that’s still over the max size. what’s the point of attaching when you can’t attach a tiny fla. Any suggestions??
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2003, 8:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-reallyreallystumped/19319/8 "2003-04-26T20:38:23Z")
yeah… remove everything that has nothing to do with this problem. :-\
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2003, 8:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-reallyreallystumped/19319/9 "2003-04-26T20:52:46Z")
i did that. base size does not go below 296k. compressed stays @ 212k.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2003, 8:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-reallyreallystumped/19319/10 "2003-04-26T20:54:48Z")
then upload it to your server… 😛
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2003, 9:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-reallyreallystumped/19319/11 "2003-04-26T21:02:16Z")
thanks
go here
[http://invisible7.com/example.fla](http://invisible7.com/example.fla)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2003, 9:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-reallyreallystumped/19319/12 "2003-04-26T21:09:24Z")
try this:
```auto
onClipEvent (load) {
gotoAndStop(1);
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (_parent._xmouse>110 && !flag) {
this.gotoAndPlay("fadeout");
flag = 1;
} else if (_parent._xmouse<110 && flag) {
this.gotoAndPlay("fadein");
flag = 0;
}
}
```
😉
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2003, 9:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-reallyreallystumped/19319/13 "2003-04-26T21:13:26Z")
you just really rock. It works! What’s the flag stuff??
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2003, 9:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-reallyreallystumped/19319/14 "2003-04-26T21:19:01Z")
the problem was that the script executed the gotoAndPlay over and over again, that’s why it didn’t fade. i set up a variable (flag) so it only is executed once.
**!flag** checks if the variable is equal to 0 (false)
**flag** checks if the variable is equal to 1 (true)
=)