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Adobe Flash Professional version MX and higher
Adobe Flex
Adobe Flash-based Content that includes blinking text or images.
This technique relates to:
See User Agent Support for Flash for general information on user agent support.
The objective of this technique is to control blinking with script
so it can be set to stop in less than five seconds by the script. The
ActionScript setTimeout() method is used to stop the MovieClip's blinking
behavior in less than 5 seconds.
In this example a MovieClip (blinkingTextMC) uses its timeline to
generate a blinking effect. Before 5 seconds has passed, the MovieClip's
gotoAndStop() method is called, which stops the blinking effect.
Example Code:
setTimeout(stopBlinking, 4500);
function stopBlinking() {
var blinkingTextMC = getChildByName('blinkingTextMC');
blinkingTextMC.gotoAndStop(1);
}
For a demonstration, view the working version of Stopping blinking after a timeout. The source of Stopping blinking after a timeout is available.
For each instance of blinking content:
Start a timer for 5 seconds at the start of the blink effect.
When the timer expires, determine if the blinking has stopped.
For each instance of blinking content, #2 is true.