Robert_Poole - 3:53 pm on Oct 31, 2008 (gmt 0)

I've got a task on my hands to make a flash banner for a website. The banner will have a slideshow going on underneath which is no problem but on top of that I need some actionscript that will do the following...

Basically I have a list of like 100 words, and I want them to be randomly selected from an XML file then to display them at a random position on the banner. Preferably they will fade in real quick, pause for a second, then fade out. I'm guessing there can be two or three going on at any one time so say if the fade in, pause then fade out all lasted 3 seconds I would like to set off a new one every second.

As if this wasn't tricky enough I'd really like to have them each to be a random font, although I guess it would just be selecting from the universal fonts.

One problem I can think of besides the fact my actionscripting is awful is that I'd want to avoid words overlapping if possible.

If anybody can contribute anything that would help me in anyway I'd really appreciate it.

Oh, and... Happy Halloween!