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Adding navigation and text to the specials screen – Siemens sony User Manual

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Creating the application

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18.

Save your changes (File > Save).

At this point, if you were to test the application in the emulator, the
animation you created would play through to the end and then stop. In the
next section (see

“Adding navigation and text to the specials screen”

on page 31

), you’ll add ActionScript that stops the animation at each

keyframe, as well as user interface elements that let the user navigate
between images.

Adding navigation and text to the specials screen

In this section, you’ll add interactivity to the specials screen that lets the
user control the transition between each animation. You’ll also add
dynamic text fields that display the name and description of each image.

To add text to display the names and descriptions of
the specials:

1.

In Flash, open the file you completed in the previous section (see

“Creating the menu for the main screen” on page 24

).

2.

In the Timeline, select Frame 10 on the Text layer.

3.

In the Tools panel, select the Text tool and create a text field below the
first masked specials image.

This text field will display the name of the special whose image is
currently being displayed.

Text field to display name of special