Francisco Camberos

In the world of advertising sometimes your required to produce these wonderful 40k-30k flash ads using tons of images and fonts. I know we all get exited about those but settle down.

We can’t always import tweening engines, because even 4.7k is too much (Tweenlite). I’m not ragging on Greenshock, actually i use it myself and love it, but of course publishers wont budge on 40k. In the day’s of 56k i understand but tons of people are on broadband already! That’s a whole other discussion so without any further ado ::drumroll::, i present my simple fading function. tadddaa!

Quick & dirty AS2 fade function… (rollover to test)

Obviously you can expand on it by adding different properties but this is basic fading.

/* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- */
// BASIC FADE FUNCTION
 
// @ AUTHOR - Fancisco Camberos
// @ EMAIL - Francisco@1984interactive.com
 
//Copyright (c) 2009 Fancisco Camberos, 1984interactive
 
/* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- */
 
// fadeIt(direction:String,target:Movieclip,fadeSpeed:Number)
 
function fadeIt(dir:String, tar:Object,fadeSpeed:Number):Void {
	onEnterFrame = function () {
		switch (dir) {
			case 'on' : tar._alpha += Math.round(fadeSpeed); break;
			case 'off' : tar._alpha -= Math.round(fadeSpeed); break;
		}
		if (tar._alpha >= 100 || tar._alpha <= 0) {
			delete onEnterFrame;
		}
	};
}