I am wondering if there is a way to tween the size of the text either in between the show and hide transitions or throughout the entire transition as a whole. Kind of like a ken burns effect on the text field itself. Is this possible?
Try to place the entire effect (show and hide) into a container movie clip and then tween that movie clip from a smaller size to a larger one. That movie clip should contain the text field and the FlashEff instance that makes the show/hide animations).