Help need in a simple animation

Hello !
I hope somebody can help me, i want to make a simple animation to my logo in macromedia flash 8.
The resource picture is in jpg (but i think i have in png also if that is better) and there is a text next to the logo.The background is black. I want to animate the text line,like its appering from the black.It is as if a cover was drawn before it along.The rest of the picture is fixed.
How can i do that ?
Thank You !

sorry im absolutely new to flash so i dont know how to do that.
here is the picture http://sherto.deviantart.com/art/Iris-Soft-193301609
so its like this : at the first frame, there are no text and with 3-4 frames the " I " comes in and etc... the rest.
as you can see there is a picture close to the texts so i cant cover them with a rectangle tool as big as the text,because it would go into the picture when moves.
once again im sorry im new so i cant even move the rectangle above the pic.
do you have any simple idea for this ?
anyway thank you for the anwser !

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Hi everyone,
I have a simple animation that is controlled by the y movement of the mouse. The code for the animation is put in frame 1 and is as follows:
var animationDirection:Boolean = false;
var prevMousePosition:Boolean = false;
var mouseListener = new Object();
mouseListener.onMouseMove = function () {
var curMousePosition = _ymouse;
if(curMousePosition > prevMousePosition) {
animationDirection = false;
}else if(curMousePosition < prevMousePosition) {
animationDirection = true;
prevMousePosition = curMousePosition;
Mouse.addListener(mouseListener);
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if(animationDirection && _currentframe < _totalframes) {
nextFrame();
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Yes, you need to convert the code. Here is what looks like a similar logic in AS3:
import flash.events.Event;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
var animationDirection:Boolean = false;
var prevMousePosition:Boolean = false;
addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, onEnterFrame);
addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE, onMouseMove);
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I'm attempting a very simple animation where three circles ease out from the center. I would like these balls to have a metaball (liquid) effect so they appear sticky/liquid, but because I also need full control of the shapes, and physics engines are way overkill for something so simple, I'm hoping there is a much better way to accomplish this besides hand animate this in Illustrator frame by frame (where I do have a very simple metaball script (thanks to Hiroyuki Sato).
Here's the basic animation.. It's pretty much the same first animation you ever created in Flash LOL:
http://files.flashvenom.com/uploads/Anim.swf
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Yo thanks. The link there - that's totally metaballs. But I'm not trying to do anything interactive / live. I'm animating. There's no user interaction and I need full control of the shapes it produces.
Not sure if you use blender, but there's modifiers you can apply to shapes. Then you can animate, etc. I'm already done animating it with Illustrator, but I'd still love to find a solution so I can do more animations in the future faster.
And yeah, Re: Amy... The video on the top of the page that Amy shared is great for what it is, very clean and professional... but unfortunately it's not what I'm after. And the page has click to buy, register now, free chapter, log in with facebook, (in other words, click bait) everywhere on the page so that's where my crass comment came from.

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......THIS ENSURES NO SMOKE!!!
THE CARD IS AN ATI RADEON RX9250-DUAL HEAD-.........ADDAPTER IS DVI(ANALOG)MALE TO VGA(ANALOG)FEMALE.
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Quote from: BOBHIGH on 17-December-05, 09:21:31
Get over it mate !
I find it easy t read CAPS...and if you dont like it ...DONT READ IT!
And why bother to reply...some people have nothing better to do.
Yes there chep and easy to come by...Ive already got a new one.
All I wanted was to make a diagram of whats inside the bloody thing...it was a simple question and required a simple answer.
NO NEED TO A WANKA !!
I feel a bann comming up.
Have you tryed Google ? really.. your question is inrelevant. No need to reply indeed.
Why do you come here asking this question anyway ? is it becouse you have a MSI gfx card ? and the adapter has nothing to do with this ?
You think you can come in here yelling.. thinking we have to put up with it and accept your style of posting. This is not a MSI tech center.. it's a user to user center.. Your question has nothing to do with MSI relavant things anyway's.
Google = your friend.
Quote from: BOBHIGH on 17-December-05, 09:21:31
it was a simple question and required a simple answer
Simple for who ? you (buying a new one) ? me ? we ? .really...........
Quote from: Dynamike on 16-December-05, 04:11:48
1: There are allot of diffrent types of those adapters.
If any of the mods have a problem about my reply.. please pm me.

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