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Fading And Reverse Fading Text
I'm so new to this it's sick. But I figure I can take a few days and learn as much as I can. I'm building a website wherein I'll have a splash page before entering the main contents of the site.

I'm using Flash 5. On the splash page I want to know how to create a text object that appears in a 'reverse fade' fashion. I imagine a 'reverse fade' function can be done with any object or graphic - I've seen it on these awesome websites listed at FK.

I don't know if I'm evening asking this question right. I'm able to use CoffeeCup Firestarter and make things appear and fade easily (duh - who couldn't with that program) but can't view the code the Firestarter program produces in order to learn how it happened.

Appreciate any help someone could give me.

Thanks,
Jeff

Can Dynamic Text Have An Embedded Link? Or HTTP Link?
I'm using the Flash scroll bar componet, which uses dynamic text, and I want to link part of my dynamic text to a specific frame in my moive. - Is it possible?
- I've tried and it doesn't allow the 'Go TO' funcion.

so,

I created another HTML page and SWF to display the specific SWF screen that I want to show up - now I'm trying to link my dynamic text to '_self' so that when the link is clicked it will look like it is in the same site.

When I use the dynamic text and create the link, it appears to be ok/workable in the Properites panel, but when published, it doesn't work.

Text Flash Link - Button Mouseover & Link
Hi - I'm a basic user of flash mx - I'm redevloping my design site. How do you make text links and how do you do mouseover scripts in flash MX.

Thanks for your help

Hide Cursor When Over Text Link (TextEvent.LINK)
Hi there!

In my application, i have custom graphic cursor. I use Mouse.hide() 'onMouseMove' . There are some special cases though, when the default mouse cursor is still visible. Like for example when:
(1) rolling over an input texfield
(2) rolling over a link: <a event:blabla>link</a>
..in html-formatted textField.

The latter is worst. Is there a way to hide the default mouse cursor in these cases? I haven't found any so far..

Cheers!

Fading Random Ordered Text From External Text File
Newb to flash. Watching various tutorials trying to come up to speed.

What I would like to create is a small flash ap that displays text in a randowm order from an external text file. I wantot create a small text box in the sidebar of a web page where customer references are displayed in random order. (so users dont see the same ones each time) I want the text to fade in and out as the next text item is displayed.

Can someone kindly point me to a resource that is close to helping to create this? Or; is flash the wrong way to go for this?

Curt

Edited: 12/02/2006 at 12:22:31 PM by cwrig

Dynamically Loading Link Text And Link
I need some code or reference for Dynamically Loading Link Text and Link from an external .txt file. The number of links could be any depending upon the changes made in the text file.

How do I go about it???????

Fading Out Text INSIDE A Text Area...
I have text showing up in a text area, I know I can make the background transparent, but how do I make the actual text showing up an _alpha of oh say 30 or 40...

I've tried..(inside the onClipLoad event of the text area)

this.text._alpha = 30;
this.setStyle("alpha", "30");

Fading In And Out Text
Right, i'm learning Flash quite quickly, well, at least up until now.

I'm relatively new to it, i'm using version 5 btw.

I'm having problems with text - fading it in and out.

Basically I can do it, but when it fades in / out, some of the letters seem to slightly distort, only fractionally, but they do do it and it ruins the effect.

Ok, how i'm doing it:

I create a layer, then type in the text - Arial font, size 30. Add a second keyframe at say frame 20 for example. I set the alpha for the text in frame 1 to '0' and in frame 20, I set the alpha to '100'. The text is white btw. I then insert a motion tween, break apart the text in frames one and 20, then chage the tween from motion to shape.

The text then fades in fine, but seems, as I said to distort whilst the fade happens - but only very slightly -on letters 'e' and 'k'.

The thing is, If I type in say a small word 'BOO' in caps, it works fine.

The other dilemma is that I created an animation this morning with lower case text in it, and that worked fine - have a look: http://www.slinky.co.uk (we run the site - one of our clients)

If someone could help with this it would be much appreciated.

Olli

Text Fading
I'm new to flash. I've got this flash file which has loads of text, which is displayed one line at a time. Each line fades in and then fades out, using alpha/motion tween. This has caused my file to be quite large in size.

Is there a more efficient way to do the fading, ideally without any motion tween? Perhaps some actionscript I can apply to each piece of text which makes it fade in and then fade out? This would save me a lot of time and file size.

[I'm using flash 5 but a flash 4 solution would be better]

Cheers.

Fading Text
Hi can u pls help me??

i have my text fading alright, but when an image fades into view i can't see my text anymore, but the alpha percentage thingy is at 100%, so the image is blocking the text. How can i make the text so that it appears infront of the image?

Fading Text?
I know i'm an idiot, but i can't find anything on this site that tells how to fade text to the background color in a movie.. Please Help!

-Nate
Flash 5 user

Fading Text?
How do you fade text into the background? --Sorry for the small length of this message, I broke my arm and even with the drugs it is very painful.

Text Fading
I am new to flash and i am looking to try to make some test appears and desapears as a new text appears and so on.
is there any way i can do these with Dynamic TEXT

Fading Text
I am having trouble fading out a movie clip that has text and a scroll bar included. I change the alpha of the movie clip and everything fads great except the text and the scroll bar. I can get static text to fade but I can't get dynamic too, and the text has to be dynamic to have a scroll bar included. Any ideas?
Thanks,

Fading Text
I am trying to learn much as i can and was hoping that some of your more advanced users could send me some of your animations and movies so i can pick them apart to look at and try to figure out what u did to create them. would be great thats a easy way for me to learn.

kefenatorjr@hotmail.com

thanks in advance
chad

Fading Text
I have some text i want to fade in and fade. i have done it many times before but this time it wont fade at all. it fades when im playing it in the design stage but not when i export it. is there any way i can change it to make it work please.

Fading Text
Can someone please help with fading text? When I change the alpha, it changes it in all frames instead of just the last one.

Fading Text
Im trying to fade text. When I set alpha to 100 on the first keyframe, and to 5 on the last and use a motion tween, it doesnt fade, just jumps from 100 to 5. Can someone help?

Fading Text?
Simple question............
How would I make text fade in & fade out?

Text Fading?
My text alpha animation displays in the work area, but not in the movie. What am I doing wrong?

Text Not Fading In
Hi,

I have text that I've converted to a mc, then applied a motion tween to (an alpha fade in). It looks and acts perfectly as I drag the scrollbar across the timeline, but when I test it, the text just appears and doesn't fade in at all. How do I get text to fade in properly?

TIA,
aaroneousmonk

Fading Text
hello. me again.

im having trouble making fading text. i kno its not that hard but i just cant seem to do it. the alpha things not working when i lower the %!!!!

so can sumbody please tell me how to make text fade in and out from invisible on a motion tween, properly

thanks!!

Fading In/out Text
Hey guys,
Im having some trouble making my text fade in and out. Ill explain to you what I did.

1. Had 1 Layer as a Background
2. Inserted New Layer named "Quote Fade"
3. Created New Graphic Symbol Named "Quote"
-The Symbol was just text
4. Stretched the Background Layer to frame 31
5. On Layer "Quote Fade" I put a keyframe on frame 2.
6. On frame 2 of Quote Fade I inserted the graphic
7. On Quote Fade I inserted a keyframe on frame 31, then 11, then 21.
8. On frame 2 of Quote Fade I clicked the graphic and lowered the alpha to 0
9. on frame 11 I made the alpha 100
10. on 21 I made the alpha 100
11. on 31 I made the alpha 0
12. I motion tweened from fram 2-11
13. motion tweened from 21-31

When I push enter on the timeline it works there, but when I preview it it doesn't fade at all and its just white text the whole time.

WHY!? What do I need to do?

Fading Text
Hi, I recently got flash, And i'm learning quick.
There's just one thing I can't get my finger on.

How do you do those text things that come up and fade away?
Like, A text appears from the left, it has a fading shadow and then when it reches the middle, it totally fades away slowely?

Can anyone help me here?

Fading Text
how do i gradually fade a line of text in from 0 to 100% visibiltiy using actionscript??

Fading In Text
Using MX2004, I'm creating a projector presentation.

I want to have my bullet point text fade in. Some of the characters seem to have the corners clipped until it hits the last frame. I created the tween by typing the text, break apart twice, then tweened in the alpha on the fill color on the shapes. It just doesn't look right until the last frame. Is there a way to avoid the clipping?

Thanks...

Fading Text
I'm new to Flash and trying to figure it out...not very successfully, I'm afraid.

I want to have a single line of text fade in (start from 0% alpha to 100% alpha). How do I do this?

Thanks

Fading Text In
Hi

I was wondering if anyone can help me.

On my website i want the text to fade in, everytime you go to a new page.

Am using the device fonts options for my text so its sharp and clear. I can't use the brightness to fade in the text, because i have a feint background, and using device fonts won't allow me to use the alpha to fade in the text.

So does anyone know any other way. Your help would be much appreciated.

Thanks for your time

Fading In Text
OK so I am trying to do a simple fade in of text that I have inside a MC and I am doing it based on the alpha of the MC ... But is does not fade in...l what am I doing wrong???

Fading Text In/out
Hi all,

I am brand new to flash and just learning the basics. I was playing around with tweens and can fade in/out graphics or shapes by creating a motion tween with the first keyframe set at an alpha of 0% and the last keyframe at an alpha of 100%. However if I use the exact same process but with text it doesn't work....the fade in appears in the timeline but if I test the movie it shows up at 100% for the entire duration. Why does it work in the timeline but not in the test movie? What might I be doing wrong or what is the right way to fade text in/out? Thanks a lot for your help,

Michael

Fading Text
Hi

I have one movie that so far displays a menu and title bar In the title bar I have some text that should fade in and out.

The text is a movie clip that if I play it in the library it works fine if I place it in the main movie it just diplays the text when it comes to the end of its timeline no fading at all ,also it is running in the main movie on its own layer.

I must be doing somthing wrong.

Thanks for any help.

Text Fading In N Out
i need some advice on some animation. can anyone point me to a post on fading text? what i'm trying to do is have words fade in and out on top of a graphic bkgd i created. question is: do i need to create a graphic of the faded text and then place that into a movie clip? i want the fade to loop while they're on the page. i hope this makes sense. i couldnt find any post that could help me out. Any help would be appreciated!!

thanks,

Fading Text In And Out?
hi im new to flash and wish to fade txt in on my stage to fit in with the other animation going on, therefore i will need to A) no how to fade text in and B) no how to move it around the timeline. if any 1 could help this would be great! thankx

Fading Text
HI guys

I'm creating scrolling text that fades away in flash mx. the problem i have is it works fine on the timeline in mx but when i test the movie in mx or in explorer..all i see the mask, that's all no scrolling text. it is viewed with flash player 8. i have attached the flash file to see what i'm talking about. thanks

Fading Text
I have CS3......I wanna make some text fade in I know you can do it but I can't remeber how can anyone help me out?

[CS3] Fading Text
Greetings,

I'd like to add some fading text (quotations) to a web page. Would like to have a different quote on each page. I was thinking of just putting the text into an FLA file and telling it to alpha from 0 - 100, pause for 75 frames and alpha from 100 - 0 but I'm sure someone out there has a sexier way of doing this by calling on a separate swf to load into the container or something.

I suspect I would have to make a separate container fla file for each page so I could load an alternate swf.

Do you know of any tutorials or can you give me an example or something?

Fading Text
Hi there.

I have a movieclip with some graphics and a dynamic textbox within.

When I code the fade-out (this._alpha -= 5 in a onEnterFrame-loop), the text doesn't fade out at all. It just stays there..

Anyone have a clue on how to fix this?

Fading Text
Hello,

I'm trying to get text to fade in over a number of frames. I've looked at a number of tutorials and they've all said the same thing - create a text-box, convert it to a symbol, create a key-frame, modify the ALPHA setting and add a motion tween. Now, the clip appears to work fine when viewed on the timeline but simple does not work when the movie is viewed (either in Test Movie or when it is exported).

I am a bit of a newbie so maybe I've missed something obvious - however, any help would be greatly appreciated...

Cheers - Jim.

Help - Fading Text
Hello,

This is my first flash movie. I followed the demo on the web site:

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/fadingtext.htm

After I ceated the flash, it only works when I click on the drop-down menu Control -> Play. But if I export it to movie or publish preview, I don't see the text is fading. Could someone help me how to fix it? Thanks.

-Alan

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Fading Text?
I have a problem with the Fading Text :
I do everything the tutorial says, and when I drag my mouse over the timeline, the text fades away, but when I publish it [html], it just does nothing.. All I see is my text doing nothing? Where did I go wrong? Thanks for the help, Great forums !!

Fading Text, And Then Some
ok, so im making this movie for a friend of miine, and i want to ahve the whole fading text thing....on the stage, everything works great, but when i test movie, the text is just there, no fading or anything...WHY!?!!??!!

also, i have a graphic in there, and it moves around...when i test movie though, its gets all jaggy round the edges. how can i prevent that?

Help With Fading Text
I'm sure this will be an easy question for you guys out there but I am 2 days into learning Flash MX. I have gone through a few tutorials and managed to create a few movie buttons and the like. I just finished the fading text one and wanted to try a logo instead of straight text. I exported the logo out of Corel Draw as a PNG. I placed a STOP to allow the logo to fade in and stop but the logo has sudden "shake" on the last frame. Any idea how to fix this or what is going on? Thanks in advance.

Help With Fading Text
I have multiple buttons on a webpage that I am working on that move and fade text when your mouse hovers over them, but when two are going at the same time, the fade doesn't work. Can anyone help me with this?

Fading Text
Ok I went to the tutorial and did everything I was told. The only thing is when I actually put the movie (swf) onto my website it doesnt fade. it's just the text and it sits there. what do i need to do?

also how do i make a preloader work....especially one like this <http://www.jonezetta.com> with the mask and stuff

Fading Text
I was doing the fading text like in the tutorial and used the motion tween. When i looked down all of the frames it faded in and out. But finnaly when i used publish in the flash player it was just the solid word and it didnt change at all. What is wrong with it.

Fading Text
I did the tutorial on the fading text. I messed around with it after trying to make it fade like one letter at a time. But I coudnt do it. Anyone know how?

Fading Text Link

Could any 1 provide me with a tutorial link on how to fade in & out a text/ word ?