Macromedia Studio 8 [Electronic resources] : Training from the Source نسخه متنی

Adding Content to the Second Screen

With the branding of screens 2 and 3 complete, you'll now add the text, images, and navigation to fill out your movie. Each of the screens will have an image and a body of text as well as a uniquely labeled navigational element. As discussed earlier, you insert new keyframes whenever the content or location of content changes in a layer. In this task, you'll fill in these respective content elements for screen 2. You'll add keyframes to the text and button layers. You added the keyframe on the photos layer in a previous exercise.

Screen 2 uses a vertical photo that you will place in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen and place the text to the left of the photo.

Note

In addition to appearing on the screen, squash.jpg also appears in the Library as a new asset of the project .

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You'll now place text next to the image. You'll copy the text out of a .txt file and paste it into your movie using the Text tool.

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The text from the file spills across your screen in a seemingly unmanageable mess. In all likelihood the Font Size property of your Text tool is still set to 28. You'll correct that and reshape the text box to fit the screen layout.

As you resize horizontally, the box will automatically resize vertically until you can fit it all in the space available.

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Tip

Should you find that you've placed your text on the wrong layer, you can select the text, choose Edit > Cut, move to the proper layer, and choose Edit > Paste in place. Flash will put the element exactly where it was, but on the correct layer .