MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-USING FLASH Use Manual page 374

Changing the language displayed on the Stage
You can change the language that appears on the Stage to any of the active languages you
selected. For more information, see
To display the text on the Stage in another language:
1.
Select Window > Other Panels > Strings to open the Strings panel.
2.
In the Stage Language pop-up menu, select the language you want to use for the Stage
language. This must be a language you added as an available language.
After you change the Stage language, any new text you type on the Stage appears in that
language. If you have previously entered text strings for the language in the Strings panel,
any text on the Stage appears in the selected language. If not, the text fields already on the
Stage are blank.
About editing strings in the Strings panel
After you have entered text strings in the Strings panel, you can edit the text strings in the
following ways:
You can edit the text strings directly in the Strings panel cells.
You can edit the text strings on the Stage in the language selected as the Stage language,
using features such as find and replace (see
spelling checking (see
changed using these features is changed on the Stage and in the Strings panel.
You can edit the XML file directly. For more information, see
Strings panel or an XML file" on page
Publishing and deploying multilanguage text
When you save, publish, or test the FLA file, a folder with an XML file is created for each
available language you selected in the Strings panel. The default location for the XML folders
and files is the same folder indicated as the SWF publish path. For more information, see
""Publishing Flash documents" on page
XML folder and files are saved in the folder in which the FLA file is located. For example, if
you have a file named Test in the mystuff folder, and you have selected English (en), German
(de), and Spanish (es) as active languages, and you have not selected a SWF publish path,
when you save the FLA file, the following folder structure is created:
\mystuff\Test.fla
\mystuff\de\Test_de.xml
\mystuff\en\Test_en.xml
\mystuff\es\Test_es.xml
374 Creating Multilanguage Text
"Selecting languages for translation" on page
"Using the Check Spelling feature" on page
379.
459. If no SWF publish path has been selected, the
"Finding and replacing text" on page
"Translating text in the
371.
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