Stopping an if statement

1

hi all-
i’m trying to keep my animations processor-friendly, so i’m trying to figure out ways to stop algorithmic animations once they’ve finished–can someone tell me if the else stop(); i’ve put in here does the trick, or will this keep evaluating on every enterFrame?


onClipEvent(enterFrame){
if (myAlpha <=100){
myAlpha=myAlpha +1;
this._alpha=myAlpha;
}else stop();
}

thx,
-mojo

2

[AS]onClipEvent(enterFrame){
if (myAlpha <=100){
myAlpha=myAlpha +1;
this._alpha=myAlpha;
} else {
stop();
}
}
[/AS]

You forgot the {}'s after else.

3

thanks for picking that up (i typed it outside of flash)… so will this stop it from evaluating after of exceeds the max value?

4

Yes and no. It will keep checking if it’s true or false. A solution might be using an extra frame, and use gotoAndStop to that frame, so that there will be no onClipEvent(enterFrame) in the extra frame. Like this:

[AS]onClipEvent(enterFrame){
if (myAlpha <=100){
myAlpha=myAlpha +1;
this._alpha=myAlpha;
}else {
pathtoyourmc.gotoAndStop(extraframenumber);
}
}[/AS]

5

instead of stop use

[AS]
else {
delete this.onEnterFrame
}
[/AS]

6

thanks, both of you!
sorcerer, that’s the stuff–i guess it’s a weird addiction, trying to do everything in a single frame!

:)mojo