Re: Animating text in Flash 3

[John Croteau]

Hi Fabrice,


> Am I nuts, or is it impossible to fade text in and out unless you make it

> a symbol?

> Am I nuts, or is it impossible to animate simple drawn lines or shapes

> unless you make them symbols?

You can do a normal tween of a single group or a single symbol. For a

shape tween you cannot tween a group or symbol.


> If the above is true, does making these things symbols make the movie

> bigger? (Especially text)

It takes a few bytes to make symbols.


> If the above is true, why would anybody use anything else than symbols in

> Flash ?

I generally symbolize all my objects (except when I am going to morph

(shape tween).


> Also, what's the average movie size for a full site?(i.eGabocorp and

> subsequent copies of it around)

Gabo isn't on our list as far as I know or at least doesn't post. I have

no sites that copy Gabo though I use many of the same effects as Gabo

does and demonstrated many before him.

The size of a Flash Movie or Flash site should depend on its content

like any other Web site.


> How many symbols do you guys end up with (roughly)?

Dozens to hundreds.

 

> I'm putting my stuff together, end since the manual is what it is, I'm

> having to find workarounds a-la-fab for everything it doesn't tell

> me....Lots. And they're not that great!

> answers to these questions would help a lot.

Have you checked out Flash Central and the Flash Tech Resource?


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