Flash MX 2004 Games : Art to ActionScript

Flash MX 2004 Games
Figure 20.5 ‘Examples/Chapter20/Reversi.html’ seen on a PocketPC 2003
on a desktop machine to display the crossword
and the clues side by side. On the
restricted space of a PPC it is impossible
to display both the crossword and the clues
simultaneously. The strategy adopted on a
mobile phone is to use the deck of cards analogy.
Content is displayed as a card from the
deck and it is possible quickly and efficiently
to switch the card. The Flash timeline makes
this easy to do. You can support each ‘card’
on a different frame on the timeline. Switching
cards is simply an exercise in jumping to
an alternative frame.
Another change we made when converting
the crossword puzzle was to make the type
size larger. Figures 20.6 to 20.8 show how the
crossword puzzle appears on the PocketPC
screen. When working with type on a PPC
the anti-aliasing feature of Flash can sometimes
make the small type difficult to read.
To avoid this, try using pixel fonts. These
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Figure 20.6 Layout for Crosswords example