Lewis Leighton | Web, flash, flex and stuff » Flex http://www.lewisleighton.co.uk Development, web, flex, flash and other random things Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:00:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 Tweening/Fading text in Flex http://www.lewisleighton.co.uk/2009/11/09/tweeningfading-text-in-flex/ http://www.lewisleighton.co.uk/2009/11/09/tweeningfading-text-in-flex/#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:33:39 +0000 admin http://www.lewisleighton.co.uk/?p=52 Recently I was trying to fade text in/out by tweening the alpha opacity. Unfortunately this didn’t work. I’d forgotten that in order to fade text you need to remember to set the blendMode property value to “layer” or BlendMode.LAYER in one of the following ways:

<mx:Text blendMode=”layer” />

yourText.blendMode = BlendMode.LAYER

Pretty simple really.

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