Animate/mask text in FW MX 2004?

The reason I'm not using flash for this is because the media
placement is not accepting swfs. Yech. So animated gif it is.
I would like to achieve the following:
Have a sentence appear from left to right, to the entire
sentence, revealing itself as an object moves across it.
I've tried creating a box symbol, animating it over the text
then trying to mask it, all to no avail... any suggestions would be
incredibly helpful.

Ccasati wrote:
> PERFECT!
>
> Except the text is going to be real text, no fancy
masking inside it, but the animation is exactly what I need. (I
need to keep it down to as few kbs as possible)
Not sure what you mean by "real text", but here's how I did
it.
There was NO masking. lol.
Created my file.
Imported the image to be used
I drew a rectangle vector shape
Typed my text
Converted my text to paths
Ungrouped the text
went to MODIFY > COMBINE PATHS > JOIN
Selected both paths (text on top)
Went to MODIFY > COMBINE PATHS > PUNCH
Selected the image, and set the X position so that it was off
the canvas
at the left
Went to MODIFY > ANIMATION > ANIMATE SELECTION and set
my movement
options (width of canvas)using 20 frames (less will save file
size, but
the animation may be jerky)
Cropped the file, optimized as an animated GIF, with 64
colors (again,
fewer colors will reduce file size
Exported the file
HTH
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