How to load clean, correct font, scrolling text

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i need the typeface on the site i’m working on to be eurostile, not a standard typeface. how do i load the text in so that when i test the movie, it shows up in eurostile, and not in times new roman? also, how do i make it fade in? i can’t seem to get it to work.

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http://www.knowflash.com/content/view/135/27/
http://www.knowflash.com/screens/uiscrollbar/scroll.swf

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thanks. i can get the scroll bar to work, i just can’t get the typeface to be what i want it to be. i want it to be eurostile, and it shows up as eurostile until i test the movie, then its times new roman. any ideas?

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oh, and how do i make it fade in? or wipe in? anything. i just need to be delayed because i have a .swf of an “opening box” that i want the text to show up in. and as of now, the text is there while the box is opening up which is not what i want.

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anyone? someone has to know how to do this. i know you dooooo

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Google is your friend, try looking it up before you ask. It’s not that we don’t want to help it’s that people don’t like to help those that don’t help themselves.

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=00000893.html

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i’ve been up and down google, kirupa, knowflash, flashkit, and all the other sites. i’ve also been all over my flash and as3 books. they just all give very specific tutorials. … here is how to make a blue navigation bar with green mouse overs with no explanation of code or anything. which i understand, because there are thousands of scenarios and ways to do things in flash and as3. thats why i come on here and try to get some advice for my specific problem. sorry if i’ve become a pest, but i’m trying to learn this all on my own and, understandably, need a little help. this isn’t the easiest thing to do.

ps: thanks for the link.

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Embed the font in the properties panel.
Use a tweening class to fade the text in.
Add other movieclips, additional properties, delays, etc… to the [COLOR=“Blue”]loadSite[/COLOR] function if you like.
*notice this script uses “TweenMax.from”; this tweens the movieclips from the condition specified in the script, to their condition on the stage in the FlashIDE.

function loadSite():void{
TweenMax.from(text_mc, 1, {alpha:0});
TweenMax.from(anotherMovieclip, 1, {, delay:.5, alpha:0});
}
loadSite();
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thanks for the code. it’s making my scroll bars flip out, but everything i try to do does that. thats something else i’ll have to figure out.