Fade movieclip on mouseout

[toxicpaint]

Hi Everyone,

I've had a look around but couldn't find any answers so thought I'd ask you lot. :)

I'm using actionscript 2.0. What I have on my stage is a button that when you mouse over it, pops up a movie clip. Then when you move you mouse off it, it disappears after about 3 seconds. What I'd like it to do is fade out after 3 seconds rather than disappearing. For some reason this seems to be pretty much impossible with my existing code. Please help!

This is what I have so far:

on (rollOut) {
	function wait() {
   var myInterval = setInterval(function () {		
      	_root.nigeria_text._visible = false;
      clearInterval(myInterval);
   }, 3*500);
}
wait();
}

Cheers,

Tom

[toxicpaint]

There must be an answer to this! Anyone? =/

[unauthorized]

There must be an answer to this! Anyone? =/

How about you just reduce the MovieClip's alpha property by 0.0334 every 100ms? Just make sure you disable it so your users won't click it again while it fades.

// note that I just pulled this code out of thin air after 5+ years of having no contact with as2
function fade_step()
{
    _root.nigeria_text.alpha -= 0.0334; // what happens on underflow?
    updateAfterEvent(); // docs says you must call this
    if(_root.nigeria_text.alpha > 0) setInterval(fade_step, 100);
}

// call this once to begin fading
setInterval(fade_step, 100);

[toxicpaint]

Nice one. :)

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