News Flasher
by Eberth
Introduction
In this tutorial , you will learn how to use the
component " Headlab News Flasher V1.1.2. Its quite
simple, download the extension from the
flashcomponents.net site by clicking
here.
And in a few minutes
you will do something like this:
[Editing a txt file you can update it easily]
Steps to Create
the News Flasher
The following steps will help you to create the
animation you see above:
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Create a dynamic textfield and give it an Instance
name, label it myText.
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Align to center the textfield ( so the text loaded
into it will be centered).
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Select Apply HTML tags.
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Then, drag and drop the component into the
textfield
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Now, modify the component parameters and publish
your movie.
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Open notepad and use this format to add news:
content=<p
align="center"><b>HEADLAB NEWSFLASHER
V1.1.2</b></p>
|<p align="center"><b>NEW:</b><u> HTML
Support!!!!</u></p>
|<p align="center"><u><a
href="http://www.kirupa.com" target="_blank">You
can add Hyperlinks</a></u></p>
|<p align="center">Get <b>up to date with</b> this
Shortnews-flasher</p align="center">distribute and
read news just like ..</p>
|<p align="center">Kirupa, the best flash learning
source!!</p>
|<p align="center">Macromedia Flash Communication
Server MX Arrived!!
|<p align="center"><b>No news today :P </b> </p>
|<p align="center">Windows XP Media Center Edition
Anounced </p>
|<p align="center">or whatever you desire</p>
|<p align="center">simply place a *.txt-file
somewhere..</p>
|<p align="center">..and set the "Pathto.txt".</p>
|<p align="center">Just try it!!!!!..</p>
|<p align="center">If you want do add more
news</p>
|<p align="center">Just edit the txt :D </p>
|<p align="center">Thanks Headlab!!</p>
- You can add Hyperlinks , and
remember, separate the news with the " | "
- here´s an explanation of the
values you can modify in your component by
clicking on it:
-- PATH TO
TXT: 'set a path to your external TXT'
the TXT must look like this:
&content=text no 1 here|text no2 here|text no 3
here&
the amount of your text is dynamically handled.
-- xANIMATION ON/OFF : turn ON
horizontal Movement is true
-- yANIMATION ON/OFF : turn ON
vertical Movement is true
-- AlphaANIMATION ON/OFF: Turn
Alpha-Blend on is true
-- XWIDTH OF ANIMATION: 'Choose a
width of your horizontal animation in pixels' -
Note that this amount will get the textfields
width added, to make sure your textfield exactly
leaves your WIDTH OF ANIMATION
-- yWIDTH OF ANIMATION: 'Choose a
width of your vertical animation in pixels' - Note
that this amount will get the textfields heigth
added, to make sure your textfield exactly leaves
your HEIGTH OF ANIMATION
-- BRAKE SPEED: 'Choose a value
in the list' - Experiment with this
-- Stop Time: 'type in a value to make your text
stop for a certain amount of time' - Experiment
with this
-- ACCELERATION SPEED: 'Type in a
value (1-50 should fit)' - Experiment with this
-Eberth
-www.eberthdesigns.com-