Tutorial - Using External Text with Flash

External Text Variables:

On completion of this exercise, the learner will have created a Flash mini-application that will load text (descriptions/instructions) from external .txt files into a dynamic text field.

Buttons will control next and previous selection of text. Buttons and associated movie clips will provide scrolling functions for the text.

Objectives:

• To develop a mini application that can be used on a web page to load product descriptions, user instructions or other information that would usually require several web pages.
• To use external data saved in .txt files with an associated dynamic text field so that many different files containing text can be displayed in a single frame.
• To use buttons to select data files to display.
• To develop scrolling text using movie clips and buttons.
• To write actionscripts to control logic and store information about the text files.

Lesson Sequence:

1. Dynamic Text
2. Navigation Buttons
3. Scroll Buttons
4. Scroll Movie Clips
5. ActionScript - frame actions
6. ActionScript - load text buttons
7. ActionScript - scroll text buttons
8. External Text files

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