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CHAPTER 2
Developing Content
Starting with the 505i phones, the i-mode service by NTT DoCoMo supports the ability to view
Flash Lite movies. The same Flash Lite functionality is available on all 505i phones, regardless of
manufacturer. This chapter describes considerations for creating Flash Lite movies that run on i-
mode phones, from general functionality to performance and size constraints.
The 505i phones support Flash Lite in both English and Japanese. However, there are a few
exceptions to the standard Flash Lite specification. To review the standard specification, see the
Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004 User Guide for Flash Lite. The exceptions to the standard
are detailed in this document.
Navigation and key events
Flash Lite for i-mode uses three keys for navigation: Up, Down, and Select. The Left and Right
keys are reserved for the i-mode browser. These three keys correspond to the Shift+Tab, Tab, and
Enter keys on the desktop versions of the Flash Player.
The keys 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, *, and # are also available. These correspond to the same keys
on the desktop versions of the Flash Player. You can attach ActionScript to these keys and the
Enter key as you would normally in Flash. ActionScript attached to other keys is ignored.
Text and fonts
Flash Lite includes support for both device and embedded fonts. You can use embedded fonts to
give you more control over the design of your movie, but doing so increases the SWF file size.
Using the device font for text limits you to a single font, but helps keep your file size small.
When using device fonts, Flash Lite limits special text formatting for dynamic text fields to
justification (left, center, right) and color. Formatting options such as superscript, subscript,
kerning, bold, and italic are not supported.
Flash Lite does not support input text fields—input text fields are not selectable and cannot be
used to enter text.
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