onEnterFrame efficiency

[Nocturn]

Hi,

I have taken the script from one of the tutorials on kirupa, about the mc easing to mouse position, and adapted it to scale a navigation "window". The script looks like this



onClipEvent (load) {
_xscale = 0;
_yscale = 1;
speed = 3;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if(_xscale <99){
endX = 100;
_xscale += (endX-_xscale)/speed;
} else if(_yscale <99){
endY = 100;
_yscale += (endY-_yscale)/speed;
}
}


My question is if this is an efficient way of doing it. I have this script attached to 3 mc's so Flash will continually check these 3 clips now? Does this take up to many resources? Is there a better way of doing it, without using onClipEvent? Sort of like, once the windows are scaled to 100%, I want Flash to forget checking them.

[Nocturn]

The kind of effect I'm going after you can see on this site:
http://www.leos-baden-baden.de/catering/

The white stripes that load the elements. What's a good way of making that effect?

[kode]

You can use dynamic event handlers, which you can delete whenever you wish.

... That would be something like this:
clip._xscale = 0;
clip._yscale = 1;
speed = 3;
clip.onEnterFrame = function() {
if (this._xscale<99) {
endX = 100;
this._xscale += (endX-this._xscale)/speed;
} else if (this._yscale<99) {
endY = 100;
this._yscale += (endY-this._yscale)/speed;
} else {
delete this.onEnterFrame;
}
};
Where clip is the instance name of your MovieClip.

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/tricks/dynamicevent.asp

[Nocturn]

Great, thanks! Just what I was wondering about:)
Do you think the script above is a good way of achieving that expanding windows effect?

[kode]

Yeah, I think so.

Besides, as long as it works... everything's valid. ;)