Scrolling text, Make dynamic text scrollable – Adobe Flash Professional CS3 User Manual
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See also
“Using shared library assets” on page 219
“Copy library assets between documents” on page 217
Create a font library item
1
Open the library to add a font symbol to.
2
Select New Font from the Library Panel menu.
3
Enter a name for the font item in the Name text field.
4
Select a font from the Font menu or enter the name of a font in the Font text field.
5
(Optional) Select Bold or Italic.
6
(Optional) To embed the font information as bitmap data rather than vector outline data, select the Bitmap Text
option, and enter a font size in the Size text field. (Bitmap fonts cannot use anti-aliasing. You must choose Bitmap as
the anti-aliasing option in the Property inspector for text that uses this font.)
Note: The Size setting applies only when you use the Bitmap Text option.
Assign an identifier string to a font library item
1
Select the font item in the Library panel.
2
Do one of the following:
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Select Linkage from the Library Panel menu.
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Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) the font symbol name in the Library panel, and select
Linkage.
3
Under Linkage, select Export for Runtime Sharing.
4
In the Identifier text field, enter a string to identify the font item.
5
In the URL text field, enter the URL of the SWF file that contains the font item.
Scrolling text
There are several ways to create scrolling text in Flash:
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Make dynamic or input text fields scrollable by using menu commands or the text field handle.
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Add a ScrollBar component to a text field to make it scroll. For more information, see “UIScrollBar Component”
in the ActionScript 2.0 Components Language Reference.
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In ActionScript, use the TextField object’s
scroll
and
maxscroll
properties to control vertical scrolling and the
hscroll
and
maxhscroll
properties to control horizontal scrolling in a text field. See Example: Creating scrolling
text in Learning ActionScript 2.0 in Adobe Flash.
Make dynamic text scrollable
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Shift-double-click the handle on the dynamic text field.
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Using the Selection tool
, select the dynamic text field and then select Text > Scrollable.
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Select the dynamic text field with the Selection tool. Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) the
dynamic text field and select Text > Scrollable.