Digital Workshop

hi,

my customer sometimes ask me for text entrance/exit effect "like powerpoint". I decided yesterday, to look at those text effect of powerpoint (powerpoint 2002) : surprise ! some effect are really very good... and easy to use (especially those "letter by letter" : typewriter, grow and turn...). It would be interesting to have that in opus, because it is important when you use opus pro04 for live presentation to have the ability to emphasis the text.
I have already try to do the job by integrating flash in opus but because of the "no transparency" of the flash's background, that do not the job.
In next release of opus pro, the include of "text animation letter by letter" (without scripting of course) is one of my first wish.

Benoit

Hi,

Thank you for your enquiry.



You can achieve this with only a few lines of script and can attach this script action directly to the text object so that the object can be saved in the component gallery for future use.

All you need to do is add a text object to the page, then apply an On Show trigger to the text object, followed by a script action. In the script pane, copy and paste the following:



Simply change the string "typewritertext" to the text you wish to display and change the value of the wait() action to the time delay you wish to leave between letters.

Now apply the changes and preview the publication. The contents of the mytext string will appear letter-by-letter with the text object.

You can now simply save this text object to a component gallery. Whenever you need to use a typewriter effect, simply drag this component onto the page and edit the script actions to the required string and time delay.

Kind regards,

thank you for your answer but...
i was not just talking about typewriter effect. I was talking about all the effect you can achieve when the software allow you to animate text "letter by letter" or "word by word" or "line by line" like text animation in powerpoint, swish, flash, mediator... (example: the line appear letter by letter with zoom and fade on each letter...)
I know that animation is not the first goal of opus (for my corporate cd-rom this software is very, very good)... but because i'd like to do all my work with this software (cd-rom + live presentation) , i'd like to see opus improve in text animation (for live presentation).
(embedded flash file is not the solution because of non-transparent background of it)

good Week-end
benoit

Maybe the next best thing.

Just type the text into the textbox.
Set the size, font, and position however you like
then set the labled animation parameters at
the top of the script

Animated text template

Cheers
Chris

Nice one Chris
cheers
Paul

whaouuu ! super

it is what i need...
i am going to study your script, it sure give me a lot of lesson of scripting.

thank you very, very much

benoit

hi,

to adapt your script at my need i have try some different things.
There is something that i don't understand when i use "var TextInfo = myText.PointFromChart()" :
1- var A = TextInfo.x return a good value
2- var B = TextInfo.y return a good value
3- var C = TextInfo.height return a good value
4- var D = TextInfo.width always return 0 !!!!

It seems to me that "TextInfo.width" should return the width of the letter ?? Is it somethings i have not understand ?? I'd like this function to try to adapt space between letter witch is different (i for example)

Benoit

Hi Benoit

yes I noticed that the .width value was missing, and
in fact it made the script a bit longer.

I also reported in the advanced section as a bug.

Cheers
Chris

If anyone else has anymore text effect scripts they can share - that would be just ACE!

I'm a complete code phobic..

what kind of text effects did you have in mind?

Chris

http://www.wildform.com/wildfx/wildfxpro.php

Now theres a product with some cool text effects.. Some are a bit over the top to be honest!!!

I used to use a previous version if this app when I did a fair bit of flash work..

now i'm doing less flash and more Opus - and Opus to replace powerpoint.

Text effects can help to augment a project. But need to be used in moderation!

Maybe theres someone out there that likes the idea/challenge has the coding skills and knowledge to play with making a series of text effect components??

I'm sure theres lots of opus users who'd like to use them???

I missed this post when it first appeared.

I have used a product called Anim-FX which does a fantastic job on creating animated text Flash intros , Flash banners , and text effects with Flash templates.

Anim-FX might not be for everyone, but a visit to http://www.anim-fx.com/ might be useful. At US$27 it is not expensive and updates are free.