[Flashcoders] keeping dynamic text persistent during animation

2008-02-20 Thread Andrew Sinning
This isn't actually a coding problem, but here it goes: I'm working with AS2 in CS3. During an animation, there is some dynamic text that needs to be hidden and revealed. I have one continuous layer of text with just the initial keyframe. The font is embedded. If I put the text layer under

RE: [Flashcoders] keeping dynamic text persistent during animation

2008-02-20 Thread Gregory Boudreaux
text persistent during animation This isn't actually a coding problem, but here it goes: I'm working with AS2 in CS3. During an animation, there is some dynamic text that needs to be hidden and revealed. I have one continuous layer of text with just the initial keyframe. The font is embedded

Re: [Flashcoders] keeping dynamic text persistent during animation

2008-02-20 Thread Zeh Fernando
Wrap the textfield with a movieclip. Then the designer can move and animate the movieclip around in any way he pleases, but you just do modifications to the textfield that's inside. New keyframes for instances of objects that are supposed to be manipulated by code is hell. Zeh Andrew

Re: [Flashcoders] keeping dynamic text persistent during animation

2008-02-20 Thread Andrew Sinning
Zeh Fernando wrote: Wrap the textfield with a movieclip. Then the designer can move and animate the movieclip around in any way he pleases, but you just do modifications to the textfield that's inside. But don't you still run into the same problem, because the designer has to be sure that they

Re: [Flashcoders] keeping dynamic text persistent during animation

2008-02-20 Thread Zeh Fernando
Zeh Fernando wrote: Wrap the textfield with a movieclip. Then the designer can move and animate the movieclip around in any way he pleases, but you just do modifications to the textfield that's inside. But don't you still run into the same problem, because the designer has to be sure that they