Write on behavior setting

When I create a text using Write On behavior, writing process ends in the very end of a letter’s track. How can I tune the behavior so that a letter to be written quickly and left in the screen in static?
Sorry for may bad English

If you are applying the Type On behavior (from Text Animation) to text, then select the behavior in the Layers List, move the playhead to where you want the text to finish typing on, and type the 'O' key to set an out point. You can also simply drag the end of the behavior in the mini-timeline to the end point you require. Once all the characters are "on", they'll stay on.

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>I have an onclick event that sets the value of a form
element to "Hi there"
> using the Set Text of Text Field behavior. Works great.
The reference
> book I
> have says you can also place valid JavaScript code in
the box that appears
> by
> placing it in brackets { }. Anyone done this?
>
> What I am trying to do is to set the value of field2 to
the value of
> field1 by
> using code like this:
>
> {document.form1.field2.value =
document.form1.field1.value}
>
> Of course, can't get it to work
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As you can see, field startup failed and we will have to modify our programs to workaround this problem and return next week to try again, with the additional time and cost involved. Not to talk about the bad image we are giving to our costumer.
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On this particular problem I also found that it gets worse when there are more files on the directory. Create a new dir every N hours? I really think that's not a solution. I would not expect this answer from NI.
I would really appreciate someone from NI to give us a technical explanation about why this problem happens and not just "trial and error" "solutions".
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Message Edited by Daniel_Chile on 06-29-2006 03:05 PM

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