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Dear
Friend,
Hello, & welcome back to FIREWIRE,
your friendly guide to the exciting world of web-design
& web-solutions! In the previous newsletter of Flash
5 Tutorial Series we had discussed about the Basic Tools
in Flash 5. Let’s continue with the Color, Transform
& Text options. |
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Info
panel gives us the information about the object or
shape on the stage. To know the width, height, x&y
position and x&y position of mouse and also the
RGB value of the color, info panel is used.
With
the help of info panel, objects can be positioned
and scaled accordingly.
Draw
any shape on the stage and to know the width, RGB
value etc, select the info panel and move the arrow
tool over the corresponding objects and know the value.
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Mixer palette is used to determine the color properties.
It consists of fill and stroke color, the default color,
no color and swap colors. The palette specifies the
RGB value of the color chosen.
Alpha
is used to obtain fine transparency in gradient (or)
solid colors. By reducing the value of alpha, a fine
transparency effect is obtained in gradient or in solid
colors.
In
the side arrow, a pop-up menu appears. From the menu,
the values like RGB, HSB(i.e. Hue, Saturation, and Brightness),hexadecimal
values can be obtained for corresponding colors. With
Add Swatch menu, the selected solid color (or) gradient
will be added to the swatch. The color added to swatch
can be retrieved back. With the mixer palette, a color
bar appears and it changes according to the color values.
In
the swatches palette, all the colors and gradients can
be received. This palette help us to duplicate the color
individually. Deletion of a individual colors is also
possible.
All
the colors can be cleared from the palette. In this
palette, the gradient or color which you have saved
will appear. To get back the saved color (or) gradient
and to delete them, swatches palette can be used.
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the side arrow, a menubar appears. The menus are:
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| Duplicate
Swatch |
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duplicate a color or a gradient. |
| Delete
Swatch |
| To
delete a individual color or gradient. |
| Add
colors |
| To
add a color to the swatch from any other location.
The color can be added through the open dialog Box
and from which we can select the color. |
| Replace
Colors |
| Instead
of a color, if we want to replace another color
, this menu can be used. The replace color also
can be specified from other location. |
| Load
Default Colors |
| This
will load the default set up colors into the swatches
palette. |
| Save
Colors |
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color or gradient, created can be saved as a color
file in any destination by using save color. |
| Save
as Default |
| To
change the color of default setting and to make
the changed setting as a default one, save it and
set that setting as default. |
| Clear
Colors |
| This
will clear the entire color except the default Black
& White Color and its gradient. |
| Web
216 |
| This
will show the color (or) arrange the color in color
swatch according to the web settings. |
| Sort
by Color |
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This
menu sort the color according to the RGB value
and make the colors to appear in a range (i.e.
VIBGYOR ).The palette starts with red color variation
and end with violet variation.
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| TEXT
TOOL |
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The
text Tool helps us to create text on the stage.
There are three types of text. They are:
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Static
Text |
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Dynamic
Text |
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Input
Text |
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| TEXT
OPTIONS |
| Static
Text: |
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To
make a text as a Label or static, static
text is used. It has two properties:
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1.
Use
device Fonts: If the option is selected,
the system based fonts will be used.
2.
Selectable: This option helps us to
select the text during the export mode.
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Dynamic
text:
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During
execution, if we want the text to change,
we can use dynamic type. The options available
in this are:
| Line
Type |
| Line
type can be Single (used for login names),
Multiple (Used for entries like Comments).
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| Variable |
| In
this textbox, we can specify the name
for Input text or Dynamic text. |
| BorderBg |
| It
helps us to have a background border
for the textbox. |
| Html |
| It
helps us to preserve the text in Rich
Text Format. |
| Selectable |
| This
option helps us to select the text during
the export mode. |
| Word
Wrap |
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It
helps us to compress the word in the
textbox.
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| Include
Font outlines |
| It
includes Uppercase, Lowercase, Punctuations,
Numbers or we can include all these
font outlines. |
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Input
text:
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If
we want the user to enter the values into
the textbox, we use Input type text. The
options available are:
| Line
Type |
| Line
type can be Single (used for login names),
Multiple (Used for entries like Comments)
or Password (The value entered by user
will appear in asterisk format) |
| Variable |
| In
this textbox, we can specify the name
for Input text or Dynamic text. |
| BorderBg |
| It
helps us to have a background border
for the textbox. |
| Html |
| It
helps us to preserve the text in Rich
Text Format. |
| Selectable |
| This
option helps us to select the text during
the export mode. |
| Include
Font outlines |
| It
includes Uppercase, Lowercase, Punctuations,
Numbers or we can include all these
font outlines. |
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