Selecting one instance of an active object?

[pinacoladaxb]

I'm trying to use a group of events to change the color of the background (an active object). I have it set up this way because I want the new background to fade in, and I have set "Active Color BG" to fade out on being destroyed.


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The result, however, is that both the old and new instances of "Active Color BG" have their color changed, and neither is destroyed. I checked the debugger, and the spreading of 0 worked. Why isn't the object with the Alterable Value A of 1 being destroyed?

[MuddyMole]

Image data is shared between all instances of an object - you replace a color in one instance, and it will affect all other instances too. Same with using the "load frame" function.
This is unavoidable.

[pinacoladaxb]

Is there another way to change a solid-color background by fading from one color to another?

[Pixelthief]

Also, im curious why the spreading of your value worked at all. Spread a value between objects i]should[/i] only select the currently scoped objects and sets their value to increments based on their order of creation. When you have a "Create Object" event, it scopes only that new object.so if you have 10 eggs, and create a new egg, only the new egg should be scoped- not all 11. When you spread value, it should just set the value of that single egg to 0 and leave the rest unaffected. Maybe spreading values doesn't work like other events in terms of scoping? :S

[MuddyMole]

@Pixelthief: By the looks of things, it didn't work - that's why neither object was destroyed.

@OP: I'd just use a system box object, but there are heaps of other ways to do it.

[pinacoladaxb]

Also, im curious why the spreading of your value worked at all.
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Hmmm I wonder why, too. Like I said, I checked the debugger and it did spread the value. Now I'm wondering exactly what went wrong. :crazy:

I'd just use a system box object, but there are heaps of other ways to do it.

I probably should have clarified that I'm using the SWF Exporter, so there's not nearly as many options. I found a workaround, but I would have liked to get this working as I had it. Oh well. Thanks for everyone's input.