Flash MX 2004 Games : Art to ActionScript

Flash MX 2004 Games
we set the caption, which in Figure 8.3 displays ‘No overlap’, to indicate the current overlap and
set the light to be red or green depending on whether an overlap is occurring.
Figure 8.3 The stage for the Conditions03 project
For this project instead of placing all our code on frame one of the main timeline we are going
to let one of the movie clips look after it. The top line displaying ‘Move your mouse around’ is
a static text field. Click on it and look at the Properties window, ‘Window/Properties’ or press
Ctrl + F3. You should see the panel shown in Figure 8.4. Using a static text field you can select
your chosen font, and Flash will embed this into the compiled file, so you don’t need to ensure
that your users have the same font. A number of formatting details can be set such as alignment
and font colour. You can even create a hyperlink to a web page.
Figure 8.4 Properties window for a static text field
Below the text field is a movie clip called ‘Light’; click on the Light now and look at the
Properties window. You should see a panel like that shown in Figure 8.5.
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