Flash :: Animated Text

Can I Pass Text As Varable/parameter To Animated Text?
Hi,

I'm able to pass text as a varaible into a Flash text object and it changes the display dynamically.

But, can I do this for text that is animated? As I understand it, once text is animated it goes from being a text object to a symbol or movie? Can I change what is being animated somehow?

Thanks!

Ron Cook
Boulder, CO

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[MX04] Dynamic Text Input -> Animated Text
Hi

Does anyone have any help regarding converting dynamically input text into animated text. Probably a bit like flashtyper but the site is down and I can't see it in action. I want to be able to change the font, colour and size of the input text and then allow simple animations to be performed on it as part of the movie ....

Any help gratefullt recieved ..

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Text Loaded From An XML File Dissapears When The Text Is Animated
I've loaded a text from an .xml file into a flash animation. The .xml file
can contain different translations of the text in several languages.
However during development the text is initially written in English inside flash. Once the language.xml file is loaded the text changes into the proper language.

The .xml file is loaded through a document class script.

The problem is though, as soon as i start to animate the text, to move it, then the text loses its translation which it loaded from the xml file and reverts back to the initial english text.

I'd like to know how to fix this, but i don't know why it happens in the first place.

Here's the document class, which loads the translation from the xml file into the text. Not sure if the document class script is even the problem though, because it works initially. The problem starts when animating the text.

ActionScript Code:
package { import flash.display.*; import flash.net.URLRequest; import flash.net.URLLoader; import flash.events.*; import flash.text.TextField; public class LoadLanguage extends MovieClip { private var languageText:XML; public function LoadLanguage() { loadLanguageFile(); } public function loadLanguageFile() { var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader(); var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest("language.xml"); loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, completeLoadingLanguageFile); loader.load(request); } public function completeLoadingLanguageFile(event:Event) { var loader:URLLoader = URLLoader(event.target); languageText = XML(loader.data); replaceText(); } public function replaceText(){ weat.text = languageText.website.indexPhp.flashElement.frame5.weAt; } }}

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Animated Text.....
Hi, I am in the process of learning how to animate my text with flash 5. I get the general ideal of it. But unfortunately when I try to implement the codes, it never works in test movie. I understand the action codes perfectly fine. What I am confused on is the first steps. Making a dynamic text, turning it into a movie clip, and then making it into an animation. If someone understands what I am talking about, could you please send me something step by step on how to do the first part. Explain it to me like I am a dummy. lol Like I said I understand how to implement the actionscript. My email addy is tammck76@aol.com. Thank you!

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Animated Text
Hello, (using Flash 5)

In scene 1, frame 1 I have placed a movie clip.
The movie clip is animated scrolling text built using some actionscript. This movie works perfectly on it's own, it scrolls the text and stops.

However, when I test the full movie, it keeps repeating itself. To overcome this I added (stop) to frame 1, scene 1 but this doesn't let the movie play properly, only showing the first letter of the animated text.

Can anyone help, is this something simple or would you need to see the actionscript that is animating the text?

I wonder if I'm in a bit deep here for a beginner :)

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Animated LED Text
I'm sure that this has been asked before, but I couldn't find a tutorial or anything to help me out. I am looking for a way to animate some text as if it was appearing on a digital meter, much in the same way that a digital voltmeter would measure voltage. The starting numbers would be 4 digits 00.00 and the final numbers would be something like 12.34. I have loaded a nice font that looks realistic but not sure how to get from here to there. I understand that the numbers would have to be converted to symbols and broken apart, then animated but I don't think morphing would work. Has anybody seen this or done it?

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Animated Text
could someone help create animated text like:

http://todbot.com/ming/ming-examples/perl/animation.swf

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[F8] Animated Text
Hi,

I have some script that animates my text, within the script you have to specify the spacing. My problem is that evertime i want to change the font or font size i have to change the spacing within the script myself, so i wondered if anyone knew of a way to automate this?

I have attached a fla. so you can see what i mean, if you change the size of the text you will see what i mean about the spacing.

Any feedback much apreciated

Thanks

Nic

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AS Animated TEXt
I followed this tut:
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/acti..._animation.htm

It works fine.
My question is if I can make this animation inside a Movieclip os upload on another movie.

I tried both and both failed.

Any help?

Thanks

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Animated TEXT
just wondering if anyone knows an easy way to animate text, as if it's being typed. i'm guessing it would need to be a movie clip. would i just have to make keyframe after keyframe and put one letter on each?
emily

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Animated Text
I have been doing the animated text tutorial, cos I just love the way you can get the text to appear in and do all kinds of fun things.
What I really want to do though is to have different lines with different font sizes.
However my actionscripting is as yet fairly limited, so I can't work out how to do this. I thought I could turn the script into a movie symbol and do it that way but it doesn't seem to work and I am not sure what else to try.
Any assistance would be much appreciated.

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Animated Text
I am new to Flash MX, I have seen something I want to recreate. It appeared to be randomly moving text, when it stopped moving; the text was links, I.E. A flash resume. Can anyone help?

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Animated Text
hi everyone!
so i am working on a website and i have something that resembles a korean character (similar to those chinese characters or "kanji") well anyway... i would really like it to seem like the letters are being painted on stroke by stroke.. in a flash movie.. is there an easy way to do this?

and i already have the "character" that i want to use.. its actually a logo.. that was made in illustrator..

is there no way out of this but to re-make the logo in flash? because that would be really dificult..

im actually thinking if this would work... keeping the imported image and putting a layer over it that would cover the different strokes and reveal it by tweening the "cover"...

well if anyone has an idea please let me know
thanks

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Animated Text In A Form
I went to this flash site once and it had a contact form. The input boxes in the form were cool because when someone typed anything in the the text would appear somewhere else on the page and circle towrds the input box coming to rest in it. If anyone knows how to do this it would be greatly appreciated if he/she shared it. I don't really want ot write it from scratch. I assume that each letter is created into a mvie clip and that movie clip animated. Also if anyone has seen the site or anything like it could you please post the address.

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Randomly Animated Text
moock, at his site, offers notes from a flash forward session about "randomation."

*each letter starts in a random location

*each letter animates with random characteristics

*each letter ends in a uniform location, relative to a random position

i can't seem to download a .fla or locate a step-by-step tutorial on this. anyone know of such a tute? i'm finding this difficult.

TIA

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Animated Text Button
I'm stuck on what should be the simple task of creating an animated text button. On mouseover the animation plays if the mouse is over an area covered by the Hit state, but flickers if the mouse is actually over the Up graphic.

Up is a graphic sym, Over is a movie clip with a stop in the last frame, Down is a graphic sym and Hit is a rectangle.

I'm sure it's a simple solution but I've spent more time than I'll admit to trying to figure it out on my own

mc

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Animated Text Action
I have been trying in vain to get a simple fade in text movie to appear on a web page by clicking a button (text symbol) on the same page. I am using Flash 5 and also tried creating in Swish 2.0. What am I missing? Does a template exist for this effect? Thanks for the assist.

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Animated Text Frame?
I've seen Flash applets that have a moving dotted line around fields with Input Text.

I've looked and looked, and all I can find is the setting to turn boarder around text on or off.

If there something built into Flash MX that can turn the static thin line around input text into a marquee-like dotted line?

Thanks!
Liam
druid -at- celticbear -dot- com

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Animated Text From Txt File ?
how do i animate text into a movieclip that pulls from a text file??
It seems like the most common of needs for a flash developer. but i cant find a single FLA on this whole site.

pls help

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Animated Buttons Using Text
I am making a nav bar with animated words nothing special
but i can't get the shape tween to work
1-I made the word (eg services) a button
2-I put in a keyframe for the up/down state then the over state.
3-I selected the word again to make it into a new symbol called "anim" and checked it as a movie clip
(Is there a trick in selecting text . An object is obvious with the spots?)
4- On this timeline I put in 3 keyframes 15 secs apart making the change to the middle The made a shape tween which didn't work.

Any suggestions?

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Animated Text Boxes
Working on an educational CD-ROM and I want to animate the text boxes as Forest Forever have done on their FROM FUJIFILM page. Please put me out of my misery and point me in the right direction - it's twisting my melon!http://www.forests-forever.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi

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No Animated Text When Published
I've finished a small banner and published it. When I go to view the swf. the animated text doesn't appear. I went back to fla. and performed a test movie, the text still doesn't appear. The text is there and the text is converted to a graphic. So any help with this mystery will be appreciated.

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Animated Buttons Using Text
Without posting or sending the .fla file yet, I want to describe my problem and see if anyone knows straight away what I'm missing.

The swf file begins with two button symbols fading in, a text button and a green circle.

Both buttons are composed of graphic symbols, which were placed in two separate movie clips, and then those movie clips placed into the Up states of the buttons.

The effect is that the buttons in their Up state fade in.

The problem comes with what happens next.

When I roll over the green circle, the Over state animates as expected. When I roll out, the button returns to the Up state, specifically to the end frame of the movie clip that was placed in the button's Up state. No fading in. That's what I want to happen.

But... when I do the same thing with the text button, on rollOut the text button plays the entire Up state movie clip again, fading in the text button rather than returning to the final frame.

Both buttons have been scripted exactly the same, so why is the text button doing this? How do I get the text button to reload itself at the end frame and not start from 0% alpha?

I've tried all kinds of ways to get that text button to stop fading in on rollOut, to no avail.

Thanks.

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Animated Revolving Text Help Plz
hey,
this should be an easy question for most of you.. i have searched and searched for a tutorial or sample for this but i cant find anything, plz help !

i need to put a text animation around an object.. im not sure the name or how to describe it, which is why i cant find a tutorial!! the best way i can describe is the text would look like Saturns ring, and revolving around an object, say a globe or football etc..

thanks for your help in advance ^^ as you can tell im new to flash

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Animated Text Question...
How do I create text that looks like its just scribbled into place, and as it animates, the text has a very shaky feel?

Any advice would be hugely appreciated!

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Animated Text Buttons
I saw a cool button effect with text.
It looks quite simple, but i'm not sure how to do it.
Here is how it works:
Upstate - is the text
Rollover - the text slides to the right smoothly
Rolloff - the text slides to the left smoothly

Its a very nice effect.

Can some help me recreate this?
Here is the site: http://www.lightboxnetwork.com/website.htm

Its the side Nav bar - Skip the intro

Thanks
-Osiyo

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Using Animated Text Components
Is there a way to figure out how many frames a text effect will need to complete it's cycle by looking at the component inspector.
Or is it just a trial and error kind of thing. I downloaded the supreme4 effects and they are pretty cool.

thank you
kevin

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An Animated Text Bubble
I'm working on a cartoon and all of the character animation is done. Instead of an audio track I want to animated text bubbles that reveal the dialog with a mask.

I'm having some trouble getting the effect right. I don't want to mask the entire layer, just the lines of text I'm working with.
If you have any ideas how to do this, please respond.

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Animated Text Boxes
Working on an educational CD-ROM and I want to animate the text boxes as Forest Forever have done on their FROM FUJIFILM page. Please put me out of my misery and point me in the right direction - it's twisting my melon!

http://www.forests-forever.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi

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Help Please With The Animated Text Tutorial
hello, i'm doing a portfolio website and i want to update it by database (mysql) so i'm using php + flash + mysql.

i found the actionscript text effect tutorial in this website and i can apply to the loaded var from database by defining the textvariable o i putted this:

myvar = new LoadVars();
myvar.load('http://localhost/personal/a.php');
myvar.onLoad = function(loaded) {
if (loaded){
text = this.texto;
}
};
nXstart = 1;
nYstart = 15;
_root.char._visible = false;
nLength = length(text);
nKerning = 12;
nLLength = 24;
nChars = 0;
nLNumber = 1;
nLSpace = 20;
ii = 0;

i'm defining the variable "texto" in the php file without any problem, everything is ok but when i run the movie, the text variable keep undefined until i press "Enter" (while the movie its running) then the variable is defined... i dont know what to do... i tryied putting all the variables inside the loaded brakets and didnt work and tryied putting "text="";" before the load file but didnt work either..

i dont know what to do...

Any help please? i really need it..

thank you

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CSS Applied Text Cant Be Animated
I have a mc that contains dynamic text field... My mc is animated in the main timeline...

Now I load text from xml and then asign to textbox and I apply stylesheet to it...

But when stylesheet is applied my mc that contains that text cant be animated....

Does anyone know why ?

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Animated Text Boxes
Working on an educational CD-ROM and I want to animate the text boxes as Forest Forever have done on their FROM FUJIFILM page. Please put me out of my misery and point me in the right direction - it's twisting my melon!

http://www.forests-forever.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi

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Animated Text Scroller? Please Help...
hi everyone,
does anyone know of any tutorials to create a text scroller, but one that scrolls across the screen, not like a scroll bar. im not sure what this is called.

any help would be great.

thanks tristan

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Animated Text Effect
Please take a look at this site:

www.nutrition.gov

Seems to complex to do manually...I'm not sure. Anyone know how to animate the text in this way? Is there a flash plugin or tool for this type of text animation?

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Animated Text Within A Scroll Bar
Last edited by shizilin : 2002-07-02 at 12:19.

anyone know of an fla. or a tutorial or you just simply know how to create animated text within a scroll bar. kinda like the scroll bar used at www.attik.com

anyhelp is appreciated.

sorry about that! I ment the scroll bar and movement at www.badboyonline.com except making it happen vertically!

THANKS

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Text To Animated Button
Thanks for taking the time to read my question.

I would like to type in text on the stage, then have it be a button that, when you mouse over, changes color. I would like the color to fill from the top down, not change all at once.

I am new to Flash, and have been reading the help files feverishly, and I think you do something with masks, but have had no luck in figuring this out. Masks may have nothing to do with it... I'm lost.

Thanks again,

Brad

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Animated Text From A Text File Help
I need to load 5 seperate lines of text from an external text file into my swf and make each line animate across the screen one after another with a 3 second delay between each line. It needs to be compatible with Flash 5.

I am not sure how to achieve this.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.

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Please Help With Text Scrolling And Animated Window
Hi guys, I'm pretty new to flash and need some help from u gr8 people....i'm making a web site in flash..my concern is here:
I have a menu button..which consists of home, contact.etc....buttons..what i want to do is upon clicking each of these buttons..an animated window , with minimize..maximize, and text scrolling options should open...the best example of what i want to do is at http://www.silverjeans.com then click on the company button...a window opens with a scrolling bar (wonder if it as external text) anyhow i want to create such an effect...i tried figuring out some movies in flash kit..but couldn't get it....I'd be very grateful if u could help me..thanx in advance...

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How To Make An Animated Box With Flashing Text Appear
This is a re-post with a few changes since i am a newbie i accidently posted in the wrong fourm

HI
I am doing a project with Flash MX. I have to list animal behaviors. I would like to know how to make a box appear and get larrger in the bottom left corner. Then i want "BEHAVIOR ALERT" and then the behavior appear in the box. Any help at all will be greatly appericated. Please break it down or keep it simple.

Thank you,
-Feonix-

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Tween Animated Text For Fades?
I need help in understanding how to fade some text that I have using tween animation. I set it all up in flash mx and play it directly in the editing window and it looks great. As soon as I publish the file, http://psndesign.productsiege.com/fl.../flashTest.htm the fades on all my text stop working. Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

Chris

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Animated Text + External Textfiles
I'm a flash mx user and I'd like to know how to make a animated text, i.e text sliding in from the corner of flashfield, by using external textfiles. I know how to play with variables when it comes to static text, but if I try to animate it, (I put the textfield inside MC of course) I fail to make it work, it just doesn't show any text then.

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Animated Buttons...and Dynamic Text..
I've got all my nav buttons (as movie clips) with an animation for the over state, and then the reverse animation (so it goes back to the original position smoothly) on the out state. However, if the user mouses out before the over state finishes animating, it jumps to the last out state and animates back to the starting position.

I've seen buttons that animate on mouse over, but on mouse out, the animation just reverses from the current position...how can I do that? I'm sure it's done with AS, whereas now I'm just using motion tweens for it...
Thanks.

SECOND QUESTION:

I have a dynamic text field in these same movie clip buttons (I change the text with AS based on which nav button it is)
However, if I apply any animations to that dynamic text box, the text reverts to it's default state...how come?

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Animated Text Wobble Problem
hi,

I'm having some trouble with a scrolling clip containing text.
The clip simply scrolls at a constant speed across the screen, however the text inside seems to wobble/vibrate and I can't seem to work out why.
I have tried altering the frame rate but no luck, I know breaking the text apart seems to fix it but unfortunately I need the text to be dynamic so I can't break it up.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

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Animated Text Input Component
I am having a nightmare

I have a text input component that animates on my screen, and no matter what i try cant get it to actually display any text.

I have tried embedding the fonts.

Below is my code

var _myVerdana:myVerdana = new myVerdana();

//lets create a text format object for the input boxes
var format:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
format.font = _myVerdana.fontName;
format.color = 0xFFCCCC;

nameTextInput.textField.defaultTextFormat = format;
nameTextInput.textField.embedFonts = true;
nameTextInput.textField.antiAliasType = AntiAliasType.ADVANCED;
nameTextInput.textField.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
nameTextInput.text = "test";
format.font = _myVerdana.fontName;
format.color = 0xFFCCCC;

any help would be greatly appreicated

Edited: 07/05/2007 at 09:57:04 AM by KeenoChris

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Animated Buttons With Text Appearing
I have three buttons and what I want to achieve is the following: When you mouse over (check the pic attached) a button the other 2 must vanish and the button you moused over must take the whole space. The text of the button will stay in its place and in the remaining space a text will apear in the right of the button text (each time different). Any help? Thank you very much in advance.

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Animated Looping Line Of Text
Hi everyone,

I need to have a message that will positioned at the bottom of my flash movie - just a long line of text that will move in from the right of the movie and disappear on the left as more text comes in from the right. I need this small animation to continually loop. All I've done at the moment is typed the line of text in a wide text box but I'm not sure how to animate it. Should I make it a movie clip?

Sorry to be so vague - I'm a bit brain dead this morning so would really appeciate it if someone wouldn't mind briefly outlining how I'd go about this.

Thanks in advance.

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Animated Text Field. Help Needed
Animated text from an external text file.

I have tried to combine two tutorials here, one that loads an external text file into a dynamic textfield:
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/m...ynamictext.htm

And another that animates a string of characters:
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/acti..._animation.htm

So far I not got it to work, I've checked most things here a million times such as misspelling of instance names and correct target paths. I'm still a bit stuck at what to try next.
please could someone check my script to see if i'm making an obvious error.

I'm also wondering if there is a tidier way to produce this effect, if so I would be greatful if you could point me in the right direction.

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Animated Shadow For Text In Flash
Can this effect for text be done in flash? Please take a look:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqeJ_...eature=related

I don't know if this has to be done in 3DS Max. The client's asking for this kind of effect in his website and I don't know if it can be done in Flash 8.

Thanks for the help.

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