Randy Troppmann

When you make a text field dynamic, you can choose to embed the character oulines. The text will then appear anti-aliased. You can embed “all characters” but this will embed only the font, not the entire type style. (For example, Helvetica MEDIUM and Helvetica BOLD are two different fonts). So when you dynamically bold the text, the bold chracter outline is not available and that is why it disappears. One solution is to create a dummy movieclip that has a dynamic textfield that is set to say, helvetica bold, and embeds all the characters. Then the outlines will be available when you try to dynamically bold helvetica regular with <b> tags.

Here are some links to actionscript easing functions:

http://laco.wz.cz/custom_easing/

http://tatsuokato.com/flash/dynTweenMX.html

Link to an excellent article on scope chain:

http://timotheegroleau.com/Flash/articles/scope_chain.htm