My Quick Fix » Flash http://myquickfix.co.uk Quick fixes for niggly problems... Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:10:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Cannot set alpha on dynamic text in Flash / ActionScript 2 http://myquickfix.co.uk/index.php/2009/08/cannot-set-alpha-on-dynamic-text-in-flash-actionscript-2/ http://myquickfix.co.uk/index.php/2009/08/cannot-set-alpha-on-dynamic-text-in-flash-actionscript-2/#comments Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:16:21 +0000 hutch http://www.myquickfix.co.uk/?p=578 Problem

I’m doing some freelance Flash development, and it’s been a while. I have just created a dynamic text field that I wanted to fill via actionscript, then fade in via an alpha tween. This wasn’t working, even if I set _alpha = 0 on the movieclip containing the text field.

Solution

You can only set _alpha on a Dynamic Text field if the font has been embeded (with the embed button).

Works now! wohoo! Simple stuff that I’ve known in the past, but forgot.

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