Teach Yourself Visually™ Flash® CS4 Professional

You can use dynamic text fields

in your Flash movie to display

text loaded from an external

XML document. This can be

extremely useful if you want to

update text content frequently

on a Flash-based Web site.

1 Click the Text tool ( ).

2 Click and drag on the Stage

to create a text box.

3 Open the Properties panel.

Use XML to Create Dynamic Text

Use XML to Create

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4 Set your text field to be Dynamic Text.

5 Type an instance name for your text field.

In this example, tf_member1 is the

instance name.

6 Repeat steps 2 to 5 to create multiple text

fields on the stage.

In this example, four text fields are being

created. The fields are given the instance ...