1. Box, 2. White flashing inner box, 3. Text appears

[rrottman]

I've seen this effect on many sites and I like it a lot however it is somewhat difficult to describe.

The effect simulates that the screen / interface is kind of "constructed" step by step. First the outline of the boxes appears. Then in the inner space white flash is growing and faded out and at last the content (text) appears. "Appears" meaning: not a typewriter effect but being wiped in.

Sites which use this effect heavily are
terminator3.com
2advanced.com

and many others.

I am sure one could make all this with tweens and masks and so on and my main question is: Do you believe it is done via ActionScript to keep it dynamic and reusable or is it really weaks of manually drawing shapes, etc.?

Any tutorial?
Any link?
Any idea?

Thanks.

[jaybee]

Do you believe it is done via ActionScript to keep it dynamic and reusable or is it really weaks of manually drawing shapes, etc.?

IMHO it depends v much on the site and is probably a combination of the two - like you say actionscript will keep it reusable but Flash actually does things like this (the tweening etc) very well! ;) so making a few tweened clips that display dynamic content would be easier than doing the whole thing via code, in many circumstances - if you used it a lot it would be a great opportunity to knock up a simple component

[VitiminJ]

I had the same question and a very helpful person helped me, PixelWit. So I do the same to you try this:

http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?s=&threadid=25575&