# "Timed" animation of dynamic movieclips

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/timed-animation-of-dynamic-movieclips/205641>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [October 31, 2006, 3:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/timed-animation-of-dynamic-movieclips/205641 "2006-10-31T15:20:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mistykal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8edcca/32.png) [@Mistykal](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Mistykal)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 3:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/timed-animation-of-dynamic-movieclips/205641/1 "2006-10-31T15:20:12Z")

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Hi all, i’m new to the forum, but been a regular visitor for some time… I guess I’ll start off by asking a question 🙂

I am creating a xmlMenu based off the “SquirrelFinder” menu (a tut on this site). I understand the creation of dynamic clips, but am having a hard time animating them, since I don’t know much about Tween classes (or timers?) yet.

Here’s the deal:  
I would like to fade or move each menu item in after it is created in a manner so that they appear one after another. If I just use the dynamic clip’s onEnterFrame function to increase alpha the problem is that the items appear to fade all at once as they are created almost instantly. I would like each item to “wait” for previous item to stop rolling in and then start rolling itself.

How would I go about this? :crying:

thanks a bunch… 👼