RE: FLASH: fast typewriter effect

[Paul Willoughby]

Hi Marcel,


The easiest way to do this is to use a looping script that displays a

string variable in a text field incrementally. Heres a quick example for

Flash 4.

Create a movie clip with two layers and 3 frames. In the bottom layer

put your text field and call it 'txt' or sumfin. Put 3 key frames in the

top layer with these actions:


Frame 1:

Set Variable: "word" = "here's where you type the text you want to

display"

Set Variable: "i" = 0

SetVariable: "lettersPerFrame" = 20 //this is the number of letters to

paint per frame//


Frame 2:

Set Variable: "txt" = txt & Substring(word,i,lettersPerFrame) //this

adds the next group of letters from the variable 'word' to the text

field//


Frame 3:

Set Variable: "i" = i + lettersPerFrame

Go to and Play (2)


In Flash 5 this could be done easily with movie clip events. With

OnClipEvent(load) you could initialise the counter and set the variable

for the display text and with OnClipEvent(EnterFrame)you can create the

loop to add the text.


hth


paul





marcel-k wrote on 04 December 2000:


> Hi,

> 

> I want to do a typewriter effect with a fairly large text. It needs to

> 'type' very fast so I need to have (a lot) more characters 

> per frame than

> just one. I was thinking about half a line per frame instead...

> I want to do it with text fields and without anti-aliasing so 

> masking is out

> of the question (I can't get that to work... only if I let it 

> include fonts,

> but that's not what i want because then It anti-aliases).

> 

> Anybody know a good .fla file or tutorial? I got some source 

> files allready

> from flashkit, virtual-fx.net and the likes but none of them 

> do what i want.

> 

> I need a script that paints , say, 20 characters per frame, on screen.

> 

> TIA,

> Marcel


> 

> 


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