Teach Yourself Visually™ Flash® CS4 Professional

You can set the value of a dynamic text

field to display information generated

by ActionScript. Dynamic text fields are

used to display things like game scores

or results in an application like a

calculator.

Create a Dynamic Text Counter

Create a Dynamic

Text Counter

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1 Click the Text tool ( ).

2 Open the Properties panel.

3 Click the top drop-down list in

the Properties panel and choose

Dynamic Text.

4 Click and drag on the Stage to

create a dynamic text field.

5 Click here and type an instance

name for your text field.

In this example, the text field has

the instance name myField.

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6 Create a button instance on the

Stage.

Note: See Chapter 8 to ...