trouble creating flash website

[gmoniey]

Hi,

I am relatively new to flash, and trying to understand everything by example.
I am trying to build a website down, and I have the foundation working, i.e. the navigation.

I want a consistent transition between loading movies, and i have figured out how to do this, but i haven't been able to create my transition.

I want the tranisition to be a two long horizontal bars, opposite each other, and i want them to travel towards each other, all the while erasing everything underneath.

And then when the movie is loaded, i want similar bars to travel towards eachother, but this time displaying what was underneath.

I have been tryin to figure this out, and what i can think of would be to have a mask, i.e. a rectangle, and have it grow/shrink the size of the screen.

but i haven't been able to figure out how to make a motion tween of a rectangle growing/shrinking. I know how to move it around...but thats about it.

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Also, is there an api for ActionScript?

thanks!

[BeninMichael]

ok this is easy

1. create a keyframe with your rectangle.
2. creat another keyframe however long you want the rectangle to be.
3. select classic tween for cs4 or motion tween for cs3
4. select the free transform tool and manipulate your rectangle on the keyframes