Input and Dynamic Text Boxes

Since the variable for the input is the same as the dynamic box, the text you input will appear in the dynamic box. Flash will recognize the variable chatbox="your input text". Dynamic and input text has the ability to embed fonts, thereby allowing your movie to display these fonts..

1. Select your text tool and click on your stage. Set the text to the following. (if you can not find the bottom options, you must expland the properties box by clicking the lower right triangle.)

• type = Dynamic text.
• Font = Any font of your choice
• Size = 20
• color = Blue
• Alignment = left
• Multiline
• Variable name = chatbox

2. Drag the square handle from the bottom right on the text box so the box shows many lines high and fills the area you want in your movie.
3. Click format. Set the format to line spacing of -10. Click Done.

4. Click on the character button. If the font you chose is not a normal computer font, you will need to embed the font. Embedding fonts tends to enlarge your final movie file by the size of the font (.ttf) file.

For our dynamic text select All Characters. and click done.

5. Select the Text tool again. Click on the stage where you want your imput text. Set the text to the following:

• type = Input text.
• Font = Any font of your choice (but I use a system font so it wont increase movie more)
• Size = 12
• color = Black
• Alignment = left
• Singleline
• Variable name = chatbox
• Maximum characters=0 means there is no max.

6. Add your drawings to indicate where you want people to type since the box will not show up otherwise.

7. Test your movie by clicking Control=> test Movie. Type in the input box.

Explanation: Since the variable for the input is the same as the dynamic box, the text you input will appear in the dynamic box. Flash will recognize the variable chatbox="your input text".