Attaching a animation to a movie clip and calling it later

[jsavagedesign]

This is a project I have been working on lately and I keep running into problems.
The idea is to be able to attaching an animation to a movie clip and call it later. Or multiple animation at once.

example:
on the stage you have a black box called: myClip
in actionscript you type:
growClip = grow(myClip);
spinClip = spin(myClip);

now when you call:
growClip.run();
spinClip.run();
myClip will grow and spin.

These function are ran with setinterval but when I do this myClip only spins.

the function grow looks like this:

grow = function(mc,opts){
    //opts == object containing required vars
    opts.dir = (opts.dir > 0 || opts.dir == 0)?1:-1;
    id=random(10000);
 
    mc["attach_animation"+id] = {}
    co = mc["attach_animation"+id];
    co.grow = {}
    //Start: effect creation
        co.grow.run = function(){
            mc._xscale = mc._yscale = (opts.dir > 0)?0:100;
            co.grow.growID = setInterval(co.grow.effect,5);
        };
        co.grow.kill = function(){
            if(mc._xscale < 1) mc._visible = false;
            mc._xscale = mc._yscale = 100;
 
            clearInterval(co.grow.growID);
            delete co.grow;
            trace("motion complete");
        };
        co.grow.effect = function(){
            mc._xscale += opts.dir; 
            mc._yscale = mc._xscale;
            if(mc._xscale < 1 || mc._xscale > 100){
                co.grow.kill();
            }
        };
        co.grow.growID = 0;
 
    //END: effect creation
    return co.grow;
}
 
growthis = grow(myClip,{dir:1});
shrinkthis = grow(myClip,{dir:-1});
growthis.run();
 

The idea for the above code is from Adobe Spry framework

Does setInterval cancel if they are applied together?

[jsavagedesign]

Well,

This is depressing because I have found that everything I was trying to do has already been done for you by Adobe (and of course done better).

I guess I am answering my own question here.
If anyone cares all you have to do is:

//your movie clip is named "myClip"
 
import mx.transitions.*;
import mx.transitions.easing.*;
TransitionManager.start(myClip, {type:Zoom, direction:Transition.IN, duration:2, easing:Elastic.easeOut});
 
//or
 
grow = new new TransitionManager(myClip);
grow.startTransition({type:Zoom, direction:Transition.IN, duration:2, easing:Elastic.easeOut});
 
/*
There are lots of these with differant easing just search "TransitionManager" in the flash Help under "Components Language Reference" book
*/
 
-J