Flash MX 2004 Games : Art to ActionScript

Chapter 20: Using Flash on a PocketPC
must be placed on a pixel boundary. Click on the text and adjust the X: and Y: values in the
Properties window so that the values are whole numbers with no decimal part. Another feature of
pixel fonts is the need to be a multiple of 8 in size (8, 16, 24 etc.). More information is available
on the web, a good source being http://www.bestflashanimationsite.com/tutorials/2/.
Figure 20.7 Showing the clues as an overlay
screen
Figure 20.8 Displaying the answers
Reading the keyboard
For full textual input the PPC uses a Soft Input Panel (SIP). If you use the stand-alone player or
the embedding solution given in Chapter 24 you can turn this panel on and off in ActionScript.
Unfortunately this feature is not available to swf files that are hosted in PIE. To turn the panel
on use
fscommand("_sip", true);
and to turn it off use
fscommand("_sip", false);
Any text entered into an input box works in much the same way as text returned from the keyboard.
The transcribe option for the SIP, where handwriting is converted into text input, is unreliable in
the Flash Player.
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