# Loading external JPEGs & fading

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-external-jpegs-fading/219357>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 15, 2007, 9:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-external-jpegs-fading/219357 "2007-03-15T21:38:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8491ac/32.png) [@pulykamell](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/pulykamell)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 9:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-external-jpegs-fading/219357/1 "2007-03-15T21:38:58Z")

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I feel like an idiot. I’m just playing around with ActionScript, and I’m trying to create a title page where two movie clips fade in. One is a dynamic text movie clip, the second is an image that is loaded.

My code is this:

```auto

function fadeIn():Void {
    this._alpha += FADESPEED;
    if (this._alpha>100) {
        this._alpha = 100;
        delete this.onEnterFrame;
    }
}

var SITENAME:String = "title text";
var FADESPEED:Number = 10;

title_mc.title_txt.text = SITENAME;
title_mc._alpha = 0;
title_mc.onEnterFrame = fadeIn;

image_mc.loadMovie("image0.jpg");
image_mc._alpha = 0;
image_mc.onEnterFrame = fadeIn;

```

I’ve traced the heck out of this, so all I know is that image\_mc seems to only generate a single onEnterFrame event and then stops. What obvious, basic Flash point am I missing here?

It seems that if I comment out the .loadMovie line, the placeholder movie clip fades in properly, so obviously there is something about onEnterFrame events and loadMovie that I don’t know.