This Tutorial explains the basics of Text in Flash. In Flash there are 3 types of Textboxes - Static, Input & Dynamic. Static text are used for titles, labels, or other text content that appears in a flash document by default. Input text options are used for user interactivity like obtaining username or other information in a Flash form. The third type of text is a Dynamic text, that are used to display text that changes dynamically at runtime.
In Flash you can hide the standard cursor (Mouse pointer icon) and create custom cursors. The Mouse object in Flash has a
hide method which can be used to hide the normal mouse pointer and then we can define a Movieclip as our custom cursor.
While working with Movieclips in Flash you will find it necessary to start and stop the animation at runtime. Movieclips can
be easily controlled using Actionscript in Flash. The instance name of the Movieclip symbol is used to control it using Actionscript commands. In this Tutorial you'll learn how to control Movieclips using simple Actionscript code.
In this Tutorial you'll learn how to create simple and cool effects in Flash. This tutorial uses concepts of Symbols Basics
and Tweened Animations in Flash.
While working in Flash you will find it really necessary to use Buttons. You must have read our Tutorial on creating Advanced Flash Buttons, in this Tutorial you'll learn how to make yet another advanced Button by including Sound in a Button's Timeline.
In this Tutorial you'll learn how to convert Simple Buttons into Advanced Buttons. This article assumes that the reader has
knowledge in creating Movieclips and simple Buttons in Flash.
While working in Flash you will find it really necessary to create simple animation sequences. In this Tutorial you'll learn how to create Simple Animations in Flash. In Flash, animation can be done in four basic ways:
Motion Tween
Shape Tween
Frame-by-Frame Animation
Guided Motion Tween
In this Tutorial you'll learn how to create Attractive Graphic objects that use various Fill options/effects to make them unique and attractive.
Using Bitmap images as Fills
Creating a Ring in Flash
In this Tutorial you'll learn the basic concepts of Flash symbols, symbol types (graphics, buttons and movieclips), creating and using them.A Symbol can be reused throughout your movie or imported and used in other movies.
This tutorial teaches you how to preserve rich text formatting in a Flash Textbox like font, font style, hyperlink, paragraph, and other text parameters, using the appropriate HTML tags. You might be wondering how a textbox in flash can be
formatted using HTML tags
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