Hello All. This is pretty much the first day I've attempted to use Flash. I'm using version 5 I believe. I was wondering if I could get a couple of tips.
My first question is: how do you reference an object in ActionScript? For example, when a button is pressed, a want a text area on my screen to change colors. From what I can gather, a text area really has no name? I can see it referenced by the default string it contains in the ActionScript MovieExplorer tab.
Also, I am doing fine setting the string value of my text areas dynamically with variables, BUT.......the font color seems to have no "variable box" to assign to it.
So I'm guessing this must be accomplished somehow via ActionScript.
I guess my bottom line is, I am wondering if you can access properties of all objects in this as you can do in programming languages?
Thanks
Second question: I tried to set up a text area as a button. I assigned it a symbol and button behavior, but I cannot get a little hand over it, and the FSCommand I assigned to it does not fire when I do click it. Any ideas?
My first question is: how do you reference an object in ActionScript? For example, when a button is pressed, a want a text area on my screen to change colors. From what I can gather, a text area really has no name? I can see it referenced by the default string it contains in the ActionScript MovieExplorer tab.
Also, I am doing fine setting the string value of my text areas dynamically with variables, BUT.......the font color seems to have no "variable box" to assign to it.
So I'm guessing this must be accomplished somehow via ActionScript.
I guess my bottom line is, I am wondering if you can access properties of all objects in this as you can do in programming languages?
Thanks
Second question: I tried to set up a text area as a button. I assigned it a symbol and button behavior, but I cannot get a little hand over it, and the FSCommand I assigned to it does not fire when I do click it. Any ideas?