Instructions from flash 5 into MX 1

[FAM]

I found a good site on flash for begineers (such as myself) at

http://www.developingwebs.net/flash/transitioningtext1.php

and i was keen to do something shown similar to the example, which worked when i used the example file provided, providing i edited the libary but when i went to create a fresh one from scratch i found myself with different options in MX (as it was developed in flash 5) espically with the alpha part, could someone please tell me where i should be looking in relation to MX.
Instructions (Website example is more clear)

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1. Create a new movie
2. Click insert => new symbol and call it text1
3. Click insert => new symbol and call it text2.
4. Drag symbol text1 from your library and position it on your stage in frame 1 layer1.
5. Highlight frame 25, right click and select INSERT KEYFRAME.
6. Open the Effects Panel. Select alpha = 0.
6. Highlight layer 1 frame 1 and on the FRAME panel, select tweening: motion.
7. Lock Layer 1
8. Right clickon layer 1 and select INSERT LAYER.
9. Hightlight Layer 2 Frame 15, Right Click and select insert keyframe.
10. Highlight layer2, frame 15 and drag Symbol Text2 from your library and position it overtop of text 1.
11. Click on Frame 40 of layer two, right click and select INSERT KEYFRAME.12. Click on Layer 2 Frame 15 and with the Effects panel open, set alpha = 0
13. Open the FRAME control panel and set the tweening to motion.
14. Lock layer 2.
15. Insert Layer and call it actions.
16. right click on frame 40 of the actions frame and select INSERT KEYFRAME.
17. Open your actions panel, click the plus(+) symbol=>basic actions=>stop.

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Thanks in advance

 

[oldnewbie]

If you're basically looking for the alpha setting in Mx, select the first keyframe of your tween, then select the object on stage... In the Property Inspector, you should now have a Color box, select alpha and set it to whatever.
Select the next keyframe in the tween, and again select the object on stage to set the alpha setting of that second keyframe. You have to repeat that process for every keyframe in MX.

Regards,

 

[FAM]

Ok thanks oldnewbie i will give it a shot.
How do you inplement line 17? i.e.
17. Open your actions panel, click the plus(+) symbol=>basic actions=>stop.
Cheers

 

[oldnewbie]

Under Windows->hit Actions.

Or select the frame, object or symbol and hit F2 on Wndows.

Regards,

 

[FAM]

Thanks again oldnewbie,
one more question, i have looked for it in the loop help files but i would like to know how you can have an image run from frame 1 to 100 when it is first ran, then from then on, it starts at frame 25 to 100?

Cheers

 

[oldnewbie]

On a last keyframe (F6) add the following action...

gotoAndPlay(25);

Regards,

 

[FAM]

Thanks once again,
my finished swf file is ready to be integrated onto our website. What happens if the browser has not got a flash viewer? do you have to put some code somewhere in your html page to tell the browser where to download it?
Cheers