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Re: Can you help? Is there a simpler way to write this short code?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sat, 19 Apr 2014 08:55:07 GMT

Great stuff thank you!

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 05:24:27 GMT

One obivious way to increase efficiency is

var USA_animation = sym.getSymbol("USA_animation")

USA_animation.play();

sym.getSymbol("World_map").play();

USA_animation.$("UK").fadeOut();

USA_animation.$("Piechart" ).fadeOut();

USA_animation.$("people"). fadeOut();

USA_animation.$("PeopleText").fadeOut();

USA_animation.$("UKText").fadeOut();

USA_animation.$("AUSTRALI A").fadeOut();

USA_animation.$("USA").show();

USA_animation.$("USAText" ).show();

If you were performing a single operation on all the child symbols of 'USA_animation' you could further reduce it to somethinng like

sym.getSymbol("World_map").play();

var USA_animation = sym.getSymbol("USA_animation")

USA_animation.play();

var childSymbols = USA_animation.getChildSymbols(); f

for(var i=0; i<childSymbols.length; i++)

childSymbols[i].fadeOut();

I am not sure if these are the best possible ways,but these are some ways i could think of.

Let us know if you come up much shorted way to write this

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 07:34:08 GMT

Hi, I'm quite new to coding and EDGE and feel that there must be a simpler way to write this?:

sym.getSymbol("USA_animation").play();

sym.getSymbol("World_map").play();

sym.getComposition().getStage().getSymbol("UK_animation").$("UK").fadeOut();

sym.getComposition().getStage().getSymbol("UK_animation").$("Piechart").fadeOut();

sym.getComposition().getStage().getSymbol("UK_animation").$("people").fadeOut();

sym.getComposition().getStage().getSymbol("UK_animation").$("PeopleText").fadeOut();

sym.getComposition().getStage().getSymbol("UK_animation").$("UKText").fadeOut();

sym.getComposition().getStage().getSymbol("AUS_animation").$("AUSTRALIA").fadeOut();

sym.getComposition().getStage().getSymbol("USA_animation").$("USA").show();

sym.getComposition().getStage().getSymbol("USA_animation").$("USAText").show();

Can you help?