Scripting Visibility instead of Alpha

programming flash
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Hi all,

I’m developing an intro for a site, its 10 seconds long and has streaming sound in the background…I streamed it, because it has an image flash onto the screen in unison with a drumbeat.

I want to get the file size as low as possible, because they are not looking for a loader in the beginning.

http://www.inthevalley.org/knowthemark/toyotapavilion/docs/Splash.html

I’m using Alpha’s to fade the images in and out, and I know alpha %'s can kill file size.

I understand there is a _visibility function that can be applied, can you help me out on the syntax for calling it?

Thanks!

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mc._visible = /*Boolean: True or False*/;
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Can I use that to make a gradual fade, like i already have?

Or is the visibility set to either true or false?

Thanks

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visibility is on or off. Alpha is the only way to do fade.

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also, alpha isnt really hard on filesize. Its hard on clients side cpu.

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My bad, I did mean to say Alpha’s are RAM intensive.

Thanks Jerez for filling me in!

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If you have an _alpha of zero make sure to set _visible to false. Even though you may not be able to see the movie clip, it is still being drawn to the stage which takes up resources. Setting _visible to false stops Flash from re-drawing the movie clip :slight_smile:

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ahhh sweet!

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but if _visible = false …it cant perform any actions(other actions can still affect it) but it cant take any clicks or anything…with alpha 0 if uts on enterframe tells it to move it will keep moving even if alpha is 0

afaik if _visibility = false it would not move…also cant take clicks or accept focus(i think) i pretty new to this whole AS thing