animating text

[TBanks]

ok, this may sound elementary - but I cannot, for the life of me get text to animate with a fade in and fade out while following a motion guide across the stage...and now, my "text 2" seems to have disappeared - though it's still there...sigh. Obviously, I am new to flash..

Suggestions?

Here's the file I'm working on

Thanks

Toni

btw, "text 1" does what it's supposed to (though when I test movie, it loops twice before "text 2" makes its appearance??) text 2 was sort of working, then it wasn't...no idea what I did. ACK!

[greg.harvey]

I see no file?? I'll give you a hand if you can put a link to what you're doing. It's not hard.

[TBanks]

hmm - ah, I see now below I cannot post .fla files. OK, I tried zipping it. hope this works

thanks for ANY help!!



Toni

[freddydoesphp]

Most likely since you appear to be using masks, you'll need to embed your fonts for your text fields in order to animate them behind masks.

[TBanks]

but why does it kind of work? Shouldn't it not work at all then? That's the part I don't get. Sigh. Any other commments welcome.

Thanks

Toni

[TBanks]

btw, thanks for taking the time to look at it Freddy

T

[freddydoesphp]

Well not sure what its exactly supposed to do in the first place.

[TBanks]

understandable! well, I want three instances of the text (tonibanks.com) to animate. The first should slide in from the left with a fade in and a fade out. As that one nears the end of it's fade out and motion, the second should slide in from the right with a fade in and out. As THAT one fades out, I would like the third (not in the file yet) to fade in in the center (no movement on this one).

any suggestions on perhaps a better way to go about this?