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I just realised that I must have accidentally broken two of my older articles when I upgraded to the latest Wordpress version recently.
My apologies for that.

The articles affected were :

http://www.webkroll.com/popups-are-not-all-bad/

and

http://www.webkroll.com/dynamic-text-field-tweening-with-zigo-engine-fuse/

The former didn’t work anymore at all, since I uploaded a broken version of the JS code that managed the popup links, the latter simply had two demo popups that didn’t work as intended.

Both articles have now been fixed.

Just recently I have come across an issue while trying to tween dynamic text fields in Flash. The problem I am about to describe is not a Fuse/Zigo Engine (FuseKit) problem, but more a general Flash problem when trying to animate movie clips containing this type of text field using ActionScript.

Demo 1 - The problem

Demo 1

As you can see, the text field labels are all showing up before the actual alpha fade has finished, which is not the effect that is desired in this case. Each item label should show up once the tween has completed to give a more smooth appearance.

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