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Specify field settings
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Select Window > Field, or double-click a field cast member in the Cast window.
If necessary, use the Previous Cast Member and Next Cast Member buttons to navigate to the field you want to edit.
For more information, see
Using editable text
Editable text lets users enter text on a web page, customize a game, and so on. When text is editable, editing the text
changes the text cast member and all the text in the sprites where the cast member appears.
You can make text editable and let users tab between editable sprites from script or the Property inspector. (For more
information, see
Setting text or field cast member
You can make a text sprite completely editable or editable only in a certain range of frames in the Score.
Make a text sprite editable in a range of frames
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Select a range of frames within a sprite.
Select an entire sprite, or Shift-Alt-click (Windows) or Shift-Option-click (Mac) to select frames within a sprite.
Click the Property inspector's Text or Field tab by using the Graphical view.
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3
Click Editable.
Control whether text is editable with Lingo or JavaScript syntax
•
Set the
property. For more information about this property, see the Scripting Reference topics in the
editable
Director Help Panel.
Specify whether pressing the Tab key opens the next sprite for editing
•
Set the
property. For more information about this property, see the Scripting Reference topics in the
autotab
Director Help Panel.
Converting text to a bitmap
Use the Convert Bitmap command to change a text or field cast member to a bitmap. The converted graphic can then
be edited in the Paint window. After you convert a cast member to a bitmap graphic, you can't undo the change.
This command works only with text and field cast members. You can't convert a shape to a bitmap.
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In the Cast window, select the cast members to convert.
Setting text or field cast member
properties.)
properties.
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