Help with Actionscript in Flash CS3

[luisdeita]

Hello, I'm using a "class" to animate some text and need the animation to restart every 8 seconds. I'm learning Flash and I can't make the actionscript replay the animation.

Here's the code that I have:
//
//stop();
//
import textTransition;
import mx.transitions.easing.*;
var t:textTransition = new textTransition(yourTextfield, {mode:"line", speed:2000, gap:700, ease:Elastic.easeOut, _yscale:0, _xscale:0, _alpha:100, _x:yourTextfield._width/2, _y:yourTextfield._height/2});
//
//
var t:textTransition = new textTransition(text1);
//At a later time use...
t.restart();


Any help is appreciated.

[gnomeontherun]

If you have made the animation all in Actionscript, then just put all of that code inside of a function, and then use setInterval to have it called every 8 seconds like this

interval = setInterval(animationFunction, 8000);

The 8000 equals 8000 milliseconds, which is 8 seconds.

[luisdeita]

Originally Posted by jeremywilken

If you have made the animation all in Actionscript, then just put all of that code inside of a function, and then use setInterval to have it called every 8 seconds like this

interval = setInterval(animationFunction, 8000);

The 8000 equals 8000 milliseconds, which is 8 seconds.

Hello, could you be so kind to post the entire code that I should use please.
Thanks for your help.

[gnomeontherun]

That is the code. I don't know all of your code, but as I've said you need to put your custom code inside of a function and then call it in the setInterval function.

See the documentation for more examples too.

[luisdeita]

Maybe my question should be how do I put all my code in a function?
thanks

[gnomeontherun]

You can declare custom functions like this, and then put your code in between the brackets.

function MyAnimation(){
animation code here...
}

http://www.oman3d.com/tutorials/flash/intro_func_bc/ covers this information if you need more.