Re: FLASH: Re: Fading dynamic text in Flash 4?

[Gahlord Dewald]

One trick you might be able to do is instead of using an alpha tween, where you

have the alpha at 0% change the color of the text to the same color as the

background. Text fields like this will tween and give the effect of fading out

if they are over a static, single tone background. ;)


g



> OK, found the answer in MM support.  In case anyone's interested:

> 

> "Editable text fields cannot be alpha tweened unless font outlines are

included. 

> The tradeoff of including font outlines for these particular fonts is an 

> increase in file size, and Flash defaults to not include these outlines."

> 

> Andy

> 

> >Hi All,

> >

> >I'm trying to create a fade-out effect for a dynamic text field in Flash4. 

The 

> text field is inside of an instanced movie clip.  I made a loop that decreases 

> the Alpha of the movie clip, but the result is strange -- the text stays at

100% 

> alpha until the end of the loop and then blinks out.

> >

> >Does anyone know how to work around this?  Flash5 is not an option for us,

due 

> to its buggy Flash4 publishing problems.

> 

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