Animating a Movie clip with code

[Peter25066516vwuz]

Dear All thank you for your time and patience.

I am trying to animate a sky moving up as it playing fwd, I am using a simple time line tween to animate the Mc of the sky but have tried various ways to move the clip up or down, to simulate an aircraft climbing or descending.

I tried using the set interval to call the the function and a for loop

both say in console "y is not defined "when I run the animation.

The only way can get it to work is a tick function but when i try to clear the event lisetner with "clear interval(interval name)"for the Ticker nothing happens.

this.mystop_btn.addEventListener("click", fl_ClickToGoToAndPlayFromFrame.bind(this));

function fl_ClickToGoToAndPlayFromFrame(){

    this.mysky_mc.gotoAndPlay(1)
skyup()

}

function skyup(){
	
	for(var i= 0; i< 100; i ++){
	this.mysky_mc.y-=1
		console.log(y)
}
}

this.addEventListener("tick", fl_AnimateHorizontally.bind(this));

function fl_AnimateHorizontally()
{
	
	this.mysky_mc.y-=1
	
		console.log(this.mysky_mc.x)

		console.log("test3")
		
	

	}

I am doing something wrong, but not sure what it is looked at many articles but cant seem to find the info anywhere.

Best Regards

Peter

[kglad · Accepted solution]

you can't use a for-loop to display animation because the loop executes from start to end before anything on stage is updated.

setInterval will work, but it's easy to loose scope (ie, "this" isn't defined) when using setInterval.  ie, try:

var _this = this;  // used to retrieve scope in skyup

function fl_ClickToGoToAndPlayFromFrame(){

this.mysky_mc.gotoAndPlay(1);  // you probably don't want this if you're already animating.

if(!this.skyup_interval){
this.skyup_interval = setInterval(skyup, 60);

}

}

function skyup(){
if(_this.mysky_mc.y>100){  // 100 is incorrect.  fix that.
_this.mysky_mc.y-=1
} else {

clearInterval(_this.skyup_interval);

}
}

}

[Peter25066516vwuz]

Dear Kglad

Thank you very much, did not realise could not change position because "this" is not defined.

Appreciate your help

Best Regards

Peter

[kglad]

you're welcome.