MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-LEARNING ACTIONSCRIPT 2.0 IN FLASH, Manual

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448 Working with Text and Strings
8. Click a blank frame between Frame 1 and 20, and set the tween type to Shape in the
Property inspector.
9.
Save the current document as animation.fla .
10.
Select Control > Test Movie to preview the animation.
The SWF file is created in the same directory as the FLA. For this exercise to work
correctly, you need the SWF file to generate so that you can load it into a separate
FLA file.
11. Create a new FLA file and save it as animationholder.fla .
Save the file in the same folder as the animation.fla file you created previously.
12.
Add the following ActionScript code to Frame 1 of the main Timeline:
this.createTextField("textField_txt", 10, 0, 0, 300, 200);
textField_txt.html = true;
textField_txt.htmlText = "Here's an interesting animation: <img
src='animation.swf' id='animation_mc'>";
In this case, the fully qualified path to the newly created movie clip is
textField_txt.animation_mc
.
13. Save your changes to the Flash document and then select Control > Test Movie to preview
the animation within the text field.
To control the SWF file as it plays in a text field, complete the next exercise.
To control a SWF file that plays in a text field:
1. Follow the steps in the first procedure under “Controlling embedded media with
ActionScript” on page 447 .
2. Create a button instance on the Stage and give it the instance name stop_btn in the
Property inspector.
3.
Add the following ActionScript code beneath the existing code in Frame 1 of the
main Timeline:
stop_btn.onRelease = function() {
textField_txt.animation_mc.stop();
};
4.
Select Control > Test Movie to test the application.
Now, whenever you click the
stop_btn
button instance, the timeline of the animation
nested within the text field stops.
For information on making your embedded media into a hyperlink, see “About making
hypertext links out of embedded media” on page 449 .