Adding Text - MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-FLASH Tutorials Manual

46 Basic Tasks: Creating a banner, Part 2
This file contains an animation in a movie clip, text, an invisible button,
and the assets that you imported in Part 1 of this tutorial.
The movie clip instance contains a graphical instance that you animate.
Text fields contain static, stylized text that you display on the Stage.
The invisible button covers the entire Stage, and it lets your visitors
click the banner and open a new web site.
The graphic assets include a bitmap background image (the gnome),
and the star graphic that you animate in an upcoming exercise.
By the end of Part 3 of this tutorial, you will add the graphics, animation,
and interactivity to the banner. Then, you'll insert the banner on a website
using Dreamweaver.
Close the completed FLA file
To close the document, select File > Close.
If you prefer to keep the finished file open as a reference while working
with your banner file, be careful not to edit it or save any changes to it.
Now you're ready to start creating your own banner file in the next section,
"Adding text".

Adding text

You need to add some additional text to your banner for decorative
purposes. You can add several types of text to a Flash document: static text,
dynamic text, or input text. Static text is useful when you need to add
decorative text to the Stage, or any text that doesn't need to change or load
from an external source. Use dynamic text when you need to load text from
a file, database, or change the text when the SWF file plays in Flash Player.
Use input text when you want the user to type into a text field. You can
take that text and send it to a database, have it manipulate something in
the SWF file, and more.