RE: FLASH: How to do a typing effect in flash??

[Eric Smollin]

>Hello all!  I'm working on an interface with a 70s Sci-Fi feel, (ala

>Ridley Scott's Blade Runner or Alien) 

>and I'm trying to figure out a good way to do a letter by letter read

>out effect in flash. 

>Do I have to create a movie and animate the content letter by letter or

>is there a better way. 


One way I have done it in the past is to use a mask to slowly reveal the

text which creates a sort of typing effect. It is not perfect, but it is a

lot faster than doing it letter by letter.


Good Luck

-Eric-



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