A simple text question.. 1

[sheikyerbouti]

Greetings-
I'm new to this whole Flash thing and i'm trying to make a very simple movie that's 12 frames long. In frame 1 i have a keyframe and on the stage i drew a very small rectangle with fill color and stroke color. I made a keyframe in frame 12 and drew a large, full-size rectangle with the same colors as before. I went back to frame 1 and chose a shape tween to get the rectangle to grow through the 12 frames. That all works perfectly! Now what i want is to get my text, which is separated onto 3 layers for proper placement on the rectangle, to pop onto the screen on only the 12th frame. As it is, i see the text on all 12 frames (much larger than the rectangle in the early frames of the movie)and i can't figure out how to get it to just appear in the twelth frame of the movie. Can anyone help me with this problem?

Thanks in advance for any help.

-p

 

[oldnewbie]

Select the first frame of each of your text layers, and press Shift F5 until you're left with only one frame on each text layer. Then selecting this first frame, and keeping the mouse pressed down, drag that frame to the 12th frame position. Repeat this for all 3 layers. The text will then appear only on frame 12. Hope you have a stop(); action on that 12th frame, otherwise your movie will loop back to the beginning. Regards,

 

[sheikyerbouti]

Thanks so much! That worked like a charm. Now, what's with the stop action? How do i do that? I previewed the movie (ctrl + enter) and it does indeed loop over and over. I just want it to play through once and stop. Any help on this one?

Thanks,
p

 

[oldnewbie]

Add another layer and rename it actions if only for sake of clarity, but you should concentrate all your frames actions on this one layer. Select the 12th frame and press F6 to add a keyframe. Then simply add a stop action on that keyframe.

stop(); Regards,

 

[sheikyerbouti]

yes, you are indeed a rock star! I know this is elementary Flash stuff, but hey.... i gotta start somewhere! Thanks. It looks just like i wanted it to.
Have a great day.

-p