Breaking text in letters problem

programming flash
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I’ve a text with 200 characters. I want to show that text letter before letter. But when I break apart this text and then distribute to layer, i have 200 layers. This is too much!!!

How can I solve this problem easily, and without any download time issues?

Nico

Thanks

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Try to script it :slight_smile:
There’a a tute about actionscripted text effects here, I think it could be useful.

pom :crazy:

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you’re trying to animate each letter, correct?
most letter by letter animation is done 1 at a time–see my sig file, for ex. has an MC for each letter that is animated w. AS on each MC.

you could try this method:

  1. create MCs for each letter in a word, then make that word into an MC–this would break down the number of layers considerably. inside the wordMC, you’d space out your letters and add AS code to each and have them animating inside the wordMC–then, you’d just have to figure out timing, etc.

it’s not a small amount of work, but hey nothing’s ever easy, right?:goatee:
-mojo

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here is the tutorial that POm suggested:

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/ascript_text_animation.htm

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or you could get swish .v2, you can do some pretty kewl text effects w/ it, and it’s easy.

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*Originally posted by Jubba *
**here is the tutorial that POm suggested:

kirupa.com - ActionScript Text Animation **

I’ve changed a bit the structure. I’ve made no effects… so the text appears only in letters. But the speed is not optimal. The letters are being showed very slowly. How can I improve this WITHOUT CHANGING THE FRAME RATE!!! ??

Nico

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Anyone a solution for the speed???

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shorten the tween. i don’t know… frame rate is usually the only thing that will fix that.

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200 tweens or enterFrames are probably a bit too much for a computer. Can you show us what you did and how you did it?