Paul,
Reaaly cool if you manage to do a .swf with these effects, any chance of
showing it plus code if you succeed? Closest I am aware of to help with this
would be to look at the properties of the TextField Object which exposes
lots of methods and properties including _alpha and turns text into a kind
of movieclip. It can load dynamic data stored in a variable but don't think
it can load complex data stored in an array, correct me if I`m wrong. MX
Designer's Actionscript Reference I recommend might be helpful. Only other
thing I can think of is some code I got from the above book
fscommand ("allowscale", "true");
moveMe = function () {
this._x += this.dx;
this._y += this.dy;
this.dy += .5;
this._alpha -= 2;
if (this._y>400) {
this.dx = Math.random()*10-5;
this.dy = Math.random()*-10-10;
this._alpha = 100;
this._x =315;
this._y = 200;
return true;
}
};
for (i=0; i<120; i++) {
nm = "star" add i;
mainstar.duplicateMovieClip(nm, i);
_root[nm].dx = Math.random()*10-5;
_root[nm].dy = Math.random()*-10-10;
_root[nm].onEnterFrame = moveMe;
_root[nm]._x = 275;
_root[nm]._y = 390;
_quality = "high";
}
mainstar.onEnterFrame = moveMe;
stop();
I have the above on a page bubbles on www.cbweb.net the trick would be to
change the small circle bubble, mainstar, which is a movie clip, into a
movie clip loading text dynamically, the code would have to loop through the
array, maybe turn the array into a list, choose first item on the list,that
becomes mainstar above, then loop again and do same for next item, so you
have a geeser of text:-)BTW I havn't worked out the switch to toggle the
above on/off if anyone can point it out.
Colm
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-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Johnston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 04 December 2003 17:07
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Subject: [ cf-dev ] OT: ActionScript
I have a bunch of text in an array. I am cycling over that array and making
the text come out and also move.
The thing I now want is to be able to fade it in and out. The problem is
that I cannot figure out how (in actionscript) to do this.
The text will change regularly, so saying something like "make a graphic of
the text" isn't going to help.
Any ideas? I'm just banging my head against a brick wall!
Paul
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