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MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-LEARNING ACTIONSCRIPT 2.0 IN FLASH
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Contents 5
Chapter 10: Handling Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Using event handler methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
Using event listeners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
Using event listeners with components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
Using button and movie clip event handlers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
Broadcasting events from component instances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
Creating movie clips with button states. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
Event handler scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
Scope of the this keyword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
Using the Delegate class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
Chapter 11: Working with Movie Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
About controlling movie clips with ActionScript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
Calling multiple methods on a single movie clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354
Loading and unloading SWF files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
Changing movie clip position and appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
Dragging movie clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359
Creating movie clips at runtime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360
Adding parameters to dynamically created movie clips. . . . . . . . . . . 364
Managing movie clip depths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366
About caching and scrolling movie clips with ActionScript . . . . . . . 369
Using movie clips as masks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376
Handling movie clip events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378
Assigning a class to a movie clip symbol. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378
Initializing class properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379
Chapter 12: Working with Text and Strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381
About text fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
About loading text and variables into text fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392
Using fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398
About font rendering and anti-alias text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406
About text layout and formatting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .414
Formatting text with Cascading Style Sheet styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .421
Using HTML-formatted text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436
Example: Creating scrolling text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449
About strings and the String class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450

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