control a movie clip both by frame and by actionscript.

[xingzhe]

I have a question here. I have a simple motion tween for movie clip and it works fine without actionscript. But I want to add actionscript to assign the alpha value for the movie clip, like
mcSomthing._alpha = 100;
at the first frame.
But after the code was added, the tween doesn't work anymore. I guess the actionscript is above the scene tween action. Because I changed mcSomthing by actionscript, the tween cannot control the movie clip anymore.
How to solve the problem? Thank you so much.
xingzhe

[hognav2t]

its always a gd idea to have AS on its separate layer.

[xingzhe]

Hognav2t, Thank you for your reply. But even we put the actionscript to a separate layer, the result wouldn't change.

[red penguin]

In the PROPERTIES INSPECTOR, just put the _alpha to 100 there. AS destroys tweens, I think. Never touch the stuff...

[xingzhe]

red penguim, thanks.
I just simplified my application to a simple question here. I cannot use property inspector to do it in my real application. So you mean there is no way to use both as and frame tween to control a movie clip, right?

[red penguin]

I'm saying that you should tween using AS.

A workaround would be to have the instance named, say, 'box_01_mc' in frame 1. Set it's alpha to whatever you like. Then when the tween starts, make sure that the instance name you are using is different than the one you set the alpha on. (box_02_mc) THis way, Flash is seeing 2 different instances...but to the user, they are the same...

[xingzhe]

red Penguin, that works. How smart you are!
thanks.

[red penguin]

Ya gotta think outside the box sometimes....