Fade Animation for Text Box on State Change

Hey David!

I'd love to get a clear picture of what you're working with--would you mind sharing a sample slide so I can have a closer look? 

Feel free to replace any proprietary text with filler text, if you'd like. I'll be standing by!

Thanks for the help, Alyssa. 

Here is the slide I'm working with... it's very much a work in progress and in need of tweaking, but the part that I'm trying to iron out here involves the series of text boxes that appear in the middle of the screen. 

There are four text boxes and as the timeline progresses dark boxes will fade in behind one specific text box that I want to draw attention to.  The font color of the text boxes start as white so they're easy to read against the dark box behind it, and then turns to black (another state) when the box "moves", so it can be read against the white background.  When the boxes move, they fade out... but the state change doesn't fade to the new text color, it appears.  Which causes a little visual "pop" during those transitions.  What I'm hoping to do is have the change in state (font color) fade in time with the exit fade of the boxes so they match.

I think this can be achieved by using a second set of text boxes as a workaround, but I'm trying to learn how to use States and was hoping this was possible with them.

Thanks again for your assistance.  I appreciate it!

Hi David,

How about this method?

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for the  help.  Can you explain what you did?  I see the "Focus" state has 2 sets of text in the same state... one light and one dark.  Is that correct?

Hi David,

Yes, you are correct. The "Focus" state must have the light color before changing to dark because the dark color starts with a blank as it fades in. While waiting for the dark to completely fades in, we need to see the default color which is white.