# Is this possible to do using only Actionscript..?
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-this-possible-to-do-using-only-actionscript/20989
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [May 15, 2003, 2:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-this-possible-to-do-using-only-actionscript/20989 "2003-05-15T14:09:00Z")
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### Author:  [@chris\_2](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/chris_2)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2003, 2:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-this-possible-to-do-using-only-actionscript/20989/1 "2003-05-15T14:09:00Z")
As part of my brief, I have to create a small flash movie that will load a random quote (which is actually a jpeg image), fade it in to view, display it for a length of time (probably only 3-5 seconds), fade it out and then load another random quote.
Is this possible to do, purely using actionscript?
I can randomly load an image - I used the “Random Background Image” tutorial on this site - but getting the fading/pausing/fading then moving to another quote has got me stumped.
The images are imported into their own swf file that is loaded into a placeholder movie on the html page.
I tried adding in a for loop to the individual swf and the placeholder movie, to loop through alpha property of the image (just to fade up for the moment, till I get it working) - but this didn’t work at all.
I could use tweens for the fading, but this could end up a mess and more work than it needs to be as there could be quite a lot of quotes added over time.
Has anyone got any ideas on how to do this? Or am I going to have to go down the tween route?
thanks in advance for any help 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2003, 3:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-this-possible-to-do-using-only-actionscript/20989/2 "2003-05-15T15:50:28Z")
Here’s a link to check out:
[http://gskinner.com/site1/default.asp](http://gskinner.com/site1/default.asp)
Navigate to laboratory -\> source code -\> FLAs -\> gPhotoFader
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2003, 12:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-this-possible-to-do-using-only-actionscript/20989/3 "2003-05-16T12:25:31Z")
thanks, that helped me out! 🙂