Chapter 3. Working with Text
Adobe Flash CS3 Professional’s text tool doesn’t just create graphic-objects in the shape of letters, it also creates text fields filled with live text; in the authoring environment, the contents of a text field are fully editable. As you create text elements, you must decide how they will be used in the published movie and assign them a type property. If you want the end user to interact with a text field (for example, to enter personal information), set the text field’s type property to input.
If you want to update the text at runtime (for example, using ActionScript to download and display new basketball scores to a sports site), set the type property to dynamic. If the text will just sit there looking pretty, ...
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