>Kerry,
>
>The reason I asked was that I have seen quite I few posts advising people to
>do things on "prepareFrame", like changing a sprite's loc, blend or cast
>member in an animation; and these are the same kind of things that I'm used
>to putting on an exitFrame, so I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong...
Let's see if I can be clear and succinct (I'm under deadline pressure...)
I use prepareFrame to do things I don't want the user to see. E.g., I want
to move a sprite offstage or onstage, resize sprites, change colors, etc.
>Would there be a differnce between that and hiding it on an exitFrame (the
>stage wouldn't be redrawn untill the playbackhead moved, right?)
Right, but the user might see the change, especially on a slow machine.
A typical sequence I use is:
frame x:
prepareFrame: set up the scene
frame x+1:
exitFrame: make changes and loop
HTH.
Cordially,
Kerry Thompson
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