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DarlingBri
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Fading Text - Swish? - 7/17/2001 23:32:00
Hi all ![]("http://www.frontpagewebmaster.com/ubb/smile.gif") I need to do a little box of client quotes for a website. The customer wants them to fade in and out, so vertical scrollers are out. I was going to do a Swish file, but Swish seems to be automatically anti0aliasing the text, which I don't want it to do. (It needs to look like the rest of the text on the page.) What are my options? Can Swish not anti-alias? Do an animated GIF? (This might be too large... 3 140x125 images, fade in, fade out?) Ideas? --Bri
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Marr
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RE: Fading Text - Swish? - 7/17/2001 23:57:00
If it's not a lot of text - make the text a graphic and have it fade in and out?Marr ------------------
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Bill Nicol
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RE: Fading Text - Swish? - 7/17/2001 14:32:00
I did a similar animated gif a few years back, and it wasn't too difficult. It worked fine.... tended to be a bear to load up though, on slower lines and cpu speeds. But maybe that's not so bad anymore.'Tis but another option....
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DarlingBri
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RE: Fading Text - Swish? - 7/17/2001 15:05:00
Well, I attempted a compromise. I did each quote as a gif and faded them in and out using Swish. Seemed a low-laod way to do it...Sadly, it looks like crap http://www.afstocktaking.com/new_page_1.htm It has something to do with Swish moving the file one px down and on px to the right and its making weird edges on the text... Damn.
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DarlingBri
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RE: Fading Text - Swish? - 7/17/2001 15:50:00
Ah! Fixed!You just have to leave a one px margin around the text in the gif file. This is actually quite a good method - very small output, only 4K! ![]("http://www.frontpagewebmaster.com/ubb/biggrin.gif") Thanks, everyone! ------------------
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Bill Nicol
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RE: Fading Text - Swish? - 7/18/2001 20:42:00
Hi Bri,Did I miss the URL? I'd like to take a look at your solution if possible. Thanks.
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Bill Nicol
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RE: Fading Text - Swish? - 7/18/2001 15:04:00
Hi Bri,I should've known...the web police here at the office have lots of stuff shut off so that we children will not play too much with the net. ![]("http://www.frontpagewebmaster.com/ubb/rolleyes.gif") I will have to wait another couple of hours until I get home, to check it out. ![]("http://www.frontpagewebmaster.com/ubb/frown.gif")
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Bill Nicol
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RE: Fading Text - Swish? - 7/18/2001 19:48:00
Well, my apologies for asking for the URL again, it was in a prior post, and also in another forum...duhhhh...I went to the website this evening (6:45 CDST/USA) from home, and the lower right hand of the home page would not load....don't know why. It would just stop dead in it's tracks. Everything else looked terrific. So I was unable to see the swish stuff. I am using IE5 at home, and other swish/flash stuff works so..... Man, I like the looks of this site though. I'll try again later....
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DarlingBri
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RE: Fading Text - Swish? - 7/18/2001 20:18:00
Colour me embarassed... I deleted the wrong Flash file when tidying <g>All fixed... sorry for the no-show, Bill, and thanks for the kudos! --Bri ------------------
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Bill Nicol
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RE: Fading Text - Swish? - 7/19/2001 20:43:00
Hi Bri,Oh yeeeaaaah....it's there now. Very cool indeed. I like it....and what an effect.
Didn't notice any load delay either. It's pretty great when something like that works out and comes together. Have a great day.
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