Question

Is there a better way to do use a use a boolean with visible? I’m setting up animations that have conditions for visibility, and I don’t want to use something that performs poorly.

This animation blinks 30 times and stops. It works without error, but takes a moment to load. I would like to learn other ways of using visibility with conditionals.

This is what I used ‘waits before playing’

if(condition=5){
box.visible = !box.visible;

This works fine ‘no pause’

if(condition<6){
box.visible = !box.visible;

Complete code that’s buggy

var timz:Timer = new Timer(100,30);
timz.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, doIt);
var condition:Number = 5;
function doIt(event:TimerEvent):void{
trace("fire!");
if(condition=5){
box.visible = !box.visible;
}
}
timz.start();

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This works

if(condition==5){
box.visible = !box.visible;

This is the best ‘nice tween effect’

var timz:Timer = new Timer(500,30);
timz.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, doIt);
var condition:Number = 5;
function doIt(event:TimerEvent):void{
trace("fire!");
if(condition==5){
//box.visible = !box.visible;
import fl.transitions.Tween;
import fl.transitions.easing.*;
var myTweenAlpha:Tween = new Tween(box, "alpha", Strong.easeOut, 0, 1, 1, true);
}
}
timz.start();

Answer 1

You’re assigning 5 to condition in the conditional, is that intentional?

You could use the .alpha property to provide more subtle animations, but I figure the best solution would be to just use a tween engine. TweenLite (http://www.greensock.com/tweenlite/) has a great shorthand syntax for these kind of animations.