Firing Off an Event at End of Alpha Tween

Question

If I have a movie clip that resides and plays in one frame, and I want an second (visible=false) movie clip to play on the same single frame as soon as the first is finished...  what kind of event to I use? Do I have a frame action inside and at the end of the first movie clip that throws out some kind of event to tell the second to play?
Basically, I have a menu (first movie clip) that alpha tweens up, then the buttons (second movie clip) to appear when the first is 100% alpha.
I would appreciate your help.
Thanks,
Bruce

Answer 1

>>The dispatch event looked promising. With that context, how would you proceed?
Just like I showed. Dispatch the event at the end of the timeline animation. Then listen for it in the main timeline and do your other stuff.
So in the last frame of your animation you'd do:
dispatchEvent(new Event("animationEnded")); //you can use any string you like really...
And then you listen for that event from the main timeline - if your animated clip has an instance name of myClip then:
myClip.addEventListener("animationEnded", doButtonStuff, false, 0, true);
and then make the doButtonStuff function that will be called when the event is captured:
function doButtonStuff(e:Event){
     //do button stuff here
     BikeButton.visible=true
     BikeButton.play();
And FWIW, it's good to follow naming conventions - so bikeButton not BikeButton - only classes should begin with a capital letter.