Fading...

[Genx]

Basically i want to go through records waiting approx 10 seconds before fading to white then fading to the next record.. i.e. a slide show?.. is this possible at all or should i just build a seperate application in vb or something and sych the data?

Cheers, i know its a bit of a wierd question for a database

[Breezer]

I think you can get a demo file from John Mark Osborne. His 2005 Dev Con Presentation used something to the effect of what you want. Go to www.databasepros.com and download "DevCon 2005 Presentation"

[Genx]

Cheers, ill check it out

[Reed]

Here's an example file of fading text. It'll be a bit of a trick to get graphic objects to fade since you don't have programmatic control over their attributes, but this might be all you need anyway

Dana

fade.fp7.zip

[Genx]

Cheers reed,

breezer, i downloaded the devcon thing and had a look but i couldnt really find the right file... could you point me in the right direction direction?

[Genx]

Your solution works well reed and itll do perfectly for my text fading part... can i ask though, is there anyway to make it quicker and smoother?... i mean whats the minimum time for a script pause?

Genx

[Reed]

Anything less than 0.1 seconds doesn't seem to cause a difference. So the only way to go faster is to be less smooth (increase the increment)

Here's a slight modification that makes it look a little better. It fades out and then back in.

fade.fp7.zip

[Genx]

yeh i noticed that, cheers though

[Genx]

I ended up integrating this with flash by exporting to XML and reparsing into variables in flash.