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To fit flash header your company needs
you have to change company name, company slogan
and buttons text.
It’s quite easy. So let’s do it step
by step.
First of all you should open your FLA file from
web design in Macromedia Flash.
Previous chapter contains quick guide about this
question.
Now you should locate text that you want to change.
There are two ways of how to do that.
The first way is to access it from the timeline.
After you are opened FLA file in Macromedia Flash,
move red timeline slider and watch the animation
process. When you see text that needs to be modified,
stop the timeline slider. Choose Selection Tool
from tools panel or call this tool by pressing V
hotkey. Double click this text until you get type
cursor in it. Then just type your own text instead
of original once.
But some of flash headers have complicated structure
to create powerful animation effects. So it will
be hard to access symbols containing text from the
timeline. The easiest and most reliable way to locate
elements in flash is to use symbols library.
To open symbols library you can use Ctrl + L hotkey
or choose Window/Library from the top menu.
Browse the symbols library to find symbol containing
text you want to modify. You can see symbols preview
in the preview window at the top of symbols library
panel. Actually all symbols the contain text have
appropriate names such as company Name or About
Us? If you are unable to see text for some reasons
try to change movie background to non-white. Because
white colored text on white background is invisible.
To do those choose Modify/Document from the top
menu and change background color in popup window.
When you have found symbol containing text you want
to change double click symbols icon to show text
symbol in main workspace window. Then just double
click text with Selection Tool or single click it
with Text Tool (hotkey T to edit text.
While editing text in Macromedia Flash you have
wide choice of attributes able to modify. All that
options are accessible from the properties panel
at the bottom of Macromedia Flash workspace. If
you can’t see this panel for any reason you
can open it by pressing Ctrl + F3 hotkey.
To modify text color or font size just select text
using Text Tool and go to Properties Panel to change
appropriate option. You can find font family and
size dropdowns, color select box and align icons
there. Modify any of that options and change will
update to selected text.
When you have finished editing of the text block,
press Esc key to quit editing mode. Now you can
repeat operations described above to edit other
text blocks of your flash header.
After you are made all appropriate changes you should
publish your flash movie to SWF file and update
it to your web design template. You can find instructions
about it in publishing your flash movie section. |
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