Oh, I forgot to remove the onEnterFrame when it's no longer needed.
Please add this line to the end of the function:
if( progress >= 1 ) delete this.onEnterFrame;
Mark
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 12:18 AM, Mark Winterhalder <mar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 11:44 PM, Karl DeSaulniers <k...@designdrumm.com>
> wrote:
>> Oh no, I am just wanting to check what time of day it is and have my
>> background fade from dark to light accordingly.
>> The code you supplied, I think will do that, just haven't got off work yet
>> to try out. :)
>
> Well, it fades out for 12h, then fades back in for 12h, beginning at
> 6am each day.
>
> But now I think I really know what you mean. We can recycle most of the lines:
>
> var sunrise : Number = 6; // hour of day when sun begins to rise
> var fadeDuration = 100; // as number of frames
>
> var framesElapsed : Number = 0;
> var minutesPerDay : Number = 24 * 60;
> var time : Date = new Date();
> var minuteOfDay : Number = time.getHours() * 60 + time.getMinutes();
> var deltaMinutes : Number = (minuteOfDay - sunrise * 60 +
> minutesPerDay) % minutesPerDay;
> var cycleElapsed : Number = deltaMinutes / minutesPerDay; // [0...1[
>
> BKGND.BKGND_Grad.onEnterFrame = function () {
> var progress : Number = framesElapsed / fadeDuration;
>
> // here we check if the sun is supposed to set or to rise:
> if( cycleElapsed < .5 ) {
> // the sun is still rising
> this._alpha = (1 - progress) * 100;
> } else {
> // the sun is setting
> this._alpha = progress * 100;
> }
> };
>
>> I am more so wanting to know why, if my code is correct, why its throwing
>> this operand error.
>> very mysterious and bugging me to no end :-P
>
> Yeah, I'd like to know that, too. Possibly, closing and restarting
> Flash will fix it? It has its mysterious ways sometimes, at least
> that's how it used to be. :/
>
> Mark
>
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