At 13:23 -0600 03/01/01, Bryce Hall wrote:
>do a startTimer in the 'on beginSprite' handler, rather than 'on
>enterframe'. this way it will only be executed once.
Yes, using the 'beginSprite' event is a good idea. However using a
global and volatile property such as the timer is maybe not the
safest approach. So below is a simple behavior for the scriptChannel,
that uses a "private" property to keep track of the time.
There was a request to change the duration at runtime by lingo, but
since the context was not supplied, it's hard to devise a solution.
This should be a starting point though, but give a sign if you need
help with runtime control of the duration.
property pDur, pGoTime
on beginSprite me
pGoTime = the milliSeconds + pDur
end
on exitFrame me
if the milliSeconds < pGoTime then go the frame
end
on getPropertyDescriptionList me
return [#pDur:[#comment:"Duration mS",#format:#integer,#default:1000]]
end
Jakob
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