autoPlay unchecked - How to Play the effect

Hello all,

How can I dynamically play an effect after I have set it to not autoPlay? I am not using AS3 to setup the Tween or load the library. I have simply placed a symbol on the stage, dragged a FlashEff component onto it, selected my effect and then used the options to not autoPlay.

How do I now play it?

I tried adding an instance name to the FlashEff and then using the following code:

myFlashEff.show();

But I get this warning.

FLASHEFF2 WARNING: The showTransition pattern is null. The transition will not be applied.


Thank you in advance.

Barry

Hi,

I feel a bit stupid really. In the end I put the effect on the second frame of a timeline and then jumped to it using another function.

Thanks,

Barry

So this means that everything is ok now?

It means I found another way to do what I wanted to do, but just out of interest, how do you start an effect if autoplay is not checked.

Thank,

Barry

You can use showAutoPlay property and set its value to true or of course you can call show method. However you need to make sure that you are calling the method or you set the value after the show pattern was set.