Tweening a object w/actionscript

1

is it possible to make a object (box in my case) increase its width over a series of frames with actionscript? I would assume it would be somthing like this:


on (release) {
tellTarget("/path") {
this.box._width=200
}
}

its not working…
any ideas?

2

I am writing the code on the _root.bar
I did the targeting with the targeting thing on the actionscript panel. I also did it by “hand”, both didnn’t work.
i fooled around with this for awhile and went back to try to modifie the first posters code.
I did and came up with this:


on (release) {
	onEnterFrame = function () {
		if (_root.box._width<=_root.scale._width) {
			_root.box._xscale += 10;
		}
	};
}

but i this code was applied to a new .fla with only 3 elements, the box, the box that i want the with to be, and the button. and it worked! so i brought it over to my other project changed the path, and it…well…didn’t work. It made the boxes width move but never stopped. any ideas?

3

hmmm… inside the function , before the if, try tracing both sides.

 onEnterFrame = function () {
trace("left side>>>>>"+_root.box._width);
trace("right side>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>"+_root.box._width);
//
if (_root.b........
4

whooaa, you lost me there. what is tracing? whats with all the arrows?

5

<grin> tracing. very important. It takes the value of your varibles or whatever you put in the () and outputs them to the "output window’ when you test your movie. cmd + enter.

I just stuck the arrows and text in there to make it easy to distinguish which value is which.

6

THANK YOU!!!
after fooling around with it for an hour i finally got it to work!!!
here the code:


on (release) {
        onEnterFrame = function () {
                if (_root.mainmov.scalebox._width<= 700) {
                        _root.mainmov.scalebox._xscale += 10;
                }
        };
}

THANK YOU SO MUCH!
If your wondering, heres the site i am working on.
the only menu that actully works so far is the details menu, and the front page isn’t complete. But other than the non-completeness of it what do u think design wise?
THANKS AGAIN!
hmm, I just came across a problem though, if i change the <= to >= the box infidentaly goes on, why? if there anything specail i have to do when i change that symbol ( the greater than less than symbol )? Also i should be able to use != instead of <= symbols correct? because if i use them i get the same effect, line goes on forever.