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Can anyone tell me how to animate (flash on and off) some text in order to draw attention to it.
The text is inside a scrolling piece of text.
I have tried to animate it using the "pulse" feature but all of the tex pulses not just the part I have highlighted (selected).
Any help greatly appreciated.
I am using Pro 6
Thanks in advance
Regards
Chris

Hi Chris

I suspect there are several ways to accomplish this, and the one used in the attached sample .imp may not be the most efficient.

Hope it helps.

Kind Regards,

T.V.M.
Will have a look when I get home tonight
Regards
Chris

Stephen,
Thanks for your reply but this is not quite what I meant.
I wish to animate (Flash or pulse) a single line inside a scrolled text.
I have posted a file of scrolled text and I wish to animate the first line of text in order to draw attention to it but not animate the rest of the text.
If anyone else as well as Stephen can assist I would be eternally grateful
Kind regards to all
Chris

Use the setselection and setselectionstyle commands in a loop to change the font colour in an alternating cycle. You'll need to change your box to a text input, but placing a frame over the top will stop people clicking int the TB.

Mack

Chris --

First, you need to separate the text you want to flash from the rest of the text. Create one Text Object for the flashing text, and another for the stable text. Place both Text Objects into a Frame to which you should add Scroll Bars to move them both together.

Now create a Timeline. Go out to 2 seconds and from "Attributes" drag "Change Text Colour" to the 2 second mark. Make sure you highlight the correct Text Object, then select the NEW color you want (e.g. RED). Now go to 4 seconds and do the same thing. Again, don't forget to highlight the correct Text Object. This time select BLACK as the color. Click the Properties button on the Timeline, then select "Continuously."

When you Preview, the first Text Object should change from black to red text every 2 seconds, and you should be able to scroll the entire combination of flashing and regular text together.

Thank you all for your help in this matter
The solution from Demofred appears to be, in my view, the best solution it works very well and is the easiest to accomplish.
Many thanks once again.
Kind regards to all forum members
Chris