Movie Clips With Text Fields Ignore Alpha Settings?
Jul 28, 2009
I'm working on a simple movie clip that shows a few lines of outline text. Audio will eventually accompany the text, and to make the clip more "interesting" from a viewer perspective I've been asked to fade in the text line by line as the clip progresses. I hadn't expected any trouble with this...I created the text clips individually, converted them to symbols, then applied alpha=0 at appropriate points, then inserted a motion tween to transition to the same clip with alpha = 100.
The problem I'm seeing is that when I publish the swf and open it, it just shows me all the text immediately, no fade in, no nothing. When I click Control->Play while in editing mode in Flash, the clip behaves as I'd expect. Is there some feature of text clips that prevents them from behaving as expected in this context?
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