FLASH: tweening alpha value

[shinning duh]

Hi all,


I have a stupid problem and I don't know why it went wrong, so I have to 

resort to you guys.


I want to make some texts appear & disappear against a photo background, so 

I think I have to use alpha to make them appear/disappear. problem comes in 

when I made the text I typed into symbols, created 4 key frames with the 

instances in them at desired positions, motion-tweened the instances, and 

test-movie gave me merely moving text instead of moving & 

appearing/disappearing text! I have no idea why it wouldn't work the way I 

wanted it to work...


can someone tell me what possibly is the problem here? alternatively a 

step-by-step instruction list would help greatly too... I think there might 

be some procedural things I did wrong... but I tried e.g. highlighting all 

the keyframes & all the frames in between and tweening, clicking on a frame 

in between two keyframes and tweening, using the same symbol (i.e. not 

dragging new instances out of the library) for all of the key frames as 

opposed to dragging new ones out each time... amd none of them worked =(.


I appreciate your help.


nini

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