10. Controlling Text
You know that Flash lets you create visually engaging text elements—such as titles, labels, and descriptions—to accompany your graphics, animation, and sound. But did you know that you can do more with text than just set the style, color, and size? Flash text can be live, meaning that your viewers can enter text in the Flash movie as it plays, as well as select and edit the text. And Flash text can be dynamic, so it can update during playback. A text field in which viewers can enter text is called an input text field, and a text field that you can update during playback is called a dynamic text field. Both input and dynamic text fields are controlled in ActionScript using the TextField class. Input and dynamic text fields ...
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