EventHandler: fading out before doing something else

Question

Hello everybodyI would like the current page to fade out before another html page is loaded into the browser when clicking a link button. So I suppose the event handler needs to call a tween function, get the information when alpha of the main movieclip is 0, and then call the new URL.My wonder is how to make the handler read the alpha value of the main movieclip until it is 0, so that it can act upon it. Furthermore I am not sure where to place the tweening function, if it should go in the document class, or in the AS3 of the button, which is on the timeline of the mc containing the button. Thank you for your thoughts

Ned Murphy · Accepted Answer

If you create a tween function you can assign an event listener to the tween to listen for the MOTION_FINISH event and have that process changing to the new URL. If you look into the Tween class in the help documents you can find all of the events that can be listened for.

Anonymous · Answer

It is working now. For everybody who is interested here is what I did (At times, I am happy when I find such basic things in forums, possibly others are as well)

to the document class I added

        public function MainFadeOut():void{
            var tweenPageFadeOut:Tween = new Tween(this, "alpha", None.easeNone, 1, 0, 2, true);
            tweenPageFadeOut.addEventListener(TweenEvent.MOTION_FINISH, callURL);
        }
        public function callURL(e:TweenEvent):void{
            var req:URLRequest = new URLRequest("target.html");
            navigateToURL(req, "_self");
        }

To the class of the calling mc I added the event listener in the constructor with a handler activating MainFadeOut() as public function.

Pretty simple, once one knows it

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