Text Fade In WITHOUT Keyframes In MAIN TIMELINE? 3

[peggasus88]

Hi.
It's 4 AM but I am determined.
How do you make text fade in WITHOUT adding keyframes to the MAIN TIMELINE (so that the main timeline has just one frame) ? Someone mentioned a two layer movie in another post, but did not explain how to do it.
I tried the following to do a 20-frame fade-in after 19 blank frames:
1. Convert text to graphic.
2. Convert graphic to movie.
3. Double-click movie to enter symbol-editing mode.
4. Add keyframes to Frame 20 and 40.
5. Select Frame 20. Select graphic on Stage. Set alpha transparency to 0.
6. Select Frame 40. Select graphic on Stage. Set alpha transparency to 100.
7. Select a Frame between 20 and 40. Select Motion from Tween pop-up menu.
8. Select a Frame between 1 and 19 and press Delete.
When I play the movie in the Library, the text fades in AOK! But when I test my movie, the text appears suddenly and definitely DOES NOT fade in!
I have also tried the following:
After entering symbol-editing mode, convert graphic to movie. Continue from Step 4 (except substitue the word "graphic" with "movie&quot.
Once again, the text fades in AOK in the Library, but not in real life.
I'm going nuts because I know it's supposed to be such a basic effect and I feel like I'm so close. This is my first time posting to this forum and I would greatly appreciate any help.
This newbie thanks you in advance,
~*Peggy*~

 

[billwatson]

couple of ways

easiest (mx only)

give dynamic text box instance name (mytext, say) and embed the font

add to timeline

mytext._alpha = 0;
fader = setInterval(fade,100)
function fade(){
mytext._alpha += 5;
if(mytext._alpha >=100)
clearInterval(fader);
}

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