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

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"

Cheers, ill check it out

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

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?

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

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

yeh i noticed that, cheers though

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