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Actionscript Tutorial 1 Ticker & Scroller Playing with text in Flash7 by Armand Niculescu Media ... Of course you can add other definitions. 1. /* tickerstyle. css */ 2. p {font-family:

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Actionscript Tutorial 1 Ticker & Scroller Playing with text in Flash7 by Armand Niculescu Media Division Its been 3 years since my last tutorial on Flash programming. So much has changed, its impossible to pick up where I left. Actionscript has gone through many changes, becoming more mature.  The flashers have changed too.   Because of its complexity,  Flash is no longer for everyone - we no longer have flashers - we have specialized groups, Designers and Developers. Some time ago I wanted to do an introduction in Object Oriented Programming, but my work has kept me away from dedicating time and energy for this, and others (like Robin Debreuil)  have done it better than I could. Still, I realize there are many things one can learn, and today I want to share with you a very simple application: the text ticker. Most of these applications are built with javascript, which is OK, but the scrolling is not smooth unless you do a lot of tricks. So, well do it in Flash and well make sure its easily configurable, so that theres no need to recompile every time the text or layout changes. In this tutorial youll learn how to use setInterval , how to read text  from a file and how to create and style a textField . Have fun, Armand Niculescu armand@media-division. com www. Media Division. com www. Rich NetApps. com The Ticker The text ticker is just a line of text that scrolls right to left, over and over. Its one of the simplest things you can do with Flash. Start with an empty Stage of 200x20 pixels. Add this code to the first frame: Actionscript Tutorial 2 1. Stage. scaleMode = "noscale"; 2. var my Style: Text Field. Style Sheet = new TextField. Style Sheet () ; 3. var my Data: XML = new XML () ; 4. var scrollSpeed: Number = 2; The ticker will be embedded in a html page, so we want to stage to resize, not rescale, that is we want the Stage to have more/less pixels avail ...

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