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Working with Text
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Adobe Flash CS4 Professional’s text tool
doesn’t just create graphic-objects in the
shape of letters, it also creates text elds lled
with live text; in the authoring environment,
the contents of a text eld 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 eld ( for
example, to enter personal information),
set the text eld’s type property to input. If
you want to update the text at runtime ( for
example, using ActionScript to download
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