Adobe Flash Professional CC 2014 v.13.0 User Manual
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2. Select Classic Text from the Text Engine menu at the top of the Text Property inspector.
3. In the Property inspector (Window > Properties), select a text type from the pop-up menu to specify the type of text field:
Dynamic Text Creates a field that displays dynamically updating text.
Input Text Creates a field in which users can enter text.
Static Text Creates a field that cannot update dynamically.
4. For static text only: In the Text Property inspector, select a direction for text orientation and flow from the Orientation Of Text menu.
(Horizontal is the default setting.)
5. On the Stage, do one of the following:
To create a text field that displays text in a single line, click where you want the text to start.
To create a text field with a fixed width (for horizontal text) or fixed height (for vertical text), position the pointer where you want the text
to start and drag to the desired width or height.
Note: If you create a text field that extends past the edge of the Stage as you type, the text isn’t lost. To make the handle accessible again,
add line breaks, move the text field, or select View > Pasteboard.
6. Select text attributes in the Property inspector.
Change the size of a text field
Drag the text field’s resize handle.
When text is selected, a blue bounding box lets you resize the text field by dragging one of its handles. Static text fields have four handles that let
you resize the text field horizontally. Dynamic text fields have eight handles that let you resize the text field vertically, horizontally, or diagonally.
Switch a text field between fixed-width (or fixed-height) and extending
Double-click a resize handle.
Select characters in a text field
1. Select the Text tool
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2. Do one of the following:
Drag to select characters.
Double-click to select a word.
Click to specify the beginning of the selection, and Shift-click to specify the end of the selection.
Press Control+A (Windows) or Command+A (Macintosh) to select all the text in the field.
Select text fields
Using the Selection tool , click a text field. Shift-click to select multiple text fields.
Set dynamic and input text options
1. Click in an existing dynamic text field.
2. In the Property inspector, make sure Dynamic or Input is displayed in the pop-up menu.
3. Enter an instance name for the text field.
4. Specify the height, width, and location of text.
5. Select the font and style.
6. In the Paragraph section of the Property inspector, specify one of the following options from the Behavior menu:
Single line Displays the text as one line.
Multiline Displays the text in multiple lines.
Multiline No Wrap Displays text in multiple lines that break only if the last character is a breaking character, such as Enter (Windows) or
Return (Macintosh).
7. To enable users to select dynamic text, click Selectable . Deselect this option to prevent users from selecting dynamic text.
8. To preserve rich text formatting (such as fonts and hyperlinks) with the appropriate HTML tags, click Render Text As HTML .
9. To display a black border and white background for the text field, click Show Border Around Text .
10. (Optional) In the Var box, enter the variable name for the text field. (Use this option only when authoring for Macromedia Flash Player 5 from
Adobe or earlier.)
Beginning with Macromedia Flash MX (version 6), you assign the text field an instance name using the Property inspector. Although you can
use the variable name method with dynamic text fields for backwards compatibility to Macromedia Flash 5 and earlier versions, Adobe
doesn't recommend this, because you can't control other text field properties, or apply style sheet settings.
11. (Optional) Click Embed to open the Font Embedding dialog box. for more information, see
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