scale with a growing effect

[NickMalloy]

How do you scale an object in actionscript to give it the effect of getting larger. Just like you would do with a motion tween, but I want to do it with actionscript.

[Jesse]

You create a loop of some kind, be it two frames looping back and forth inside a movieclip, an onClipEvent or an Interval. If you're using FLash MX I'd suggest intervals, see the Intervals tutorial. If you don't want to do that, throw this code on the MC:
// THis will make an MC just grow and grow forever.
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
this._xscale += 5;
this._yscale += 5;
}

[NickMalloy]

what does this mean?

Symbol=southeaststatemovie, Layer=Layer 10, Frame=20: Line 1: Clip events are permitted only for movie clip instances
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {

[Jesse]

It means you've not put the code on a MovieClip... I assumed the thing you wanted to resize was a movieclip.

[NickMalloy]

how do you put the code on a movie clip? I selected my movie clip and then put the code in the actions panel, that didn't work. I double clicked the movie and put the code in frame 1 and that didn't work?

[NickMalloy]

nevermind I figured it out. sorry