Hey ClipArtGuy,
did you see the video? The effect works in 8.1.2 (latest I can run on this box) with nothing more than the line of code I posted above, i.e.-
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on mouseUp
hide group "flowText" with visual effect shrink to top
end mouseUp
In earlier versions of the IDE (as Jacque points out and of course I live in), it works with one line and, if you try locking the screen in one of those versions, you wind up with no effect at all, at least on 'nix. I thought the locking of the screen was a requirement to using the VE now, but apparently not so much (again on 'nix). Is 'nix alone in this respect, or is this a flub?
*Edit - apparently that is how it is supposed to work, one of the examples from the dictionary is
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hide me
show me with visual effect iris close slowly
The locking screen as far as I can tell isn't required just to shrink one object.