Add A Text Box - MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-GETTING STARTED WITH FLASH Getting Started

120 Tutorial: Building Your First Flash Application
16. In the Tools panel, click the Subselection tool.
17. Move the mouse over the lower-left corner of the rectangle until a tiny
white box appears next to the arrow pointer.
The pointer indicating that the corner of the rectangle can be dragged
18. Drag the corner of the rectangle to the right so that the left side of the
rectangle becomes a diagonal line at approximately a 30º angle.
19.
In the Tools panel, click the Selection tool.
This deselects the control points on the rectangle.

Add a text box

Now that you have added the blue background to the
are ready to add the text that describes each menu item. You will add two
text boxes. The ActionScript code you add later will insert the text into
these text boxes.
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