How to make Dyn Text animate w/alpha? -- flash (macromedia)

Patrick Bay
8/17/2004 11:57:12 PM

Hi Frank,

Yes, make your text field into a movie clip or graphic symbol. To do
this, just select it and hit F8 (Windows), or from the main menu choose
Modify->Convert to symbol...

Then, animate the text field to fade in.

If your effect isn't working, try embedding the font outlines (select
"Character..." in your Properties inspector).

Regards,
Patrick

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Brightbelt
8/19/2004 6:25:44 PM

Hi-
In case anybody cares, I did experiment and got some results. Ironically,
the more complicated senario worked better. That is, I had dynamic text
field set up within a movie clip (for purposes of using an ez text
component) and I was able to convert the movie clip to a graphic (so I guess
that made it a nested symbol of sorts) and do an alpha/motion tween. And it
worked beautifully so that the text fades in well.
As I mentioned, there's an ironic part - when I tried converting just a
Dyn text field by itself on the main timeline to a graphic and doing an
aplha/motion tween to it, I got no fade in effect at all. While I was able
to "do" the procedures on the timeline without any visible problems, as far
as the actual results and getting the effect I wanted, it did not work for
some reason.
Thanks,...Frank
www.frankbright.com

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