Add A Confirmation Message; Add A Stop() Action - MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004-LEARNING FLASH Manual

Add a confirmation message

Next, you'll add a message to display when the user submits an entry in the text field.
In the Dialog Boxes layer, select Frame 10. Right-click (Windows) or Control-click
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(Macintosh) the selected frame and select Insert Blank Keyframe from the context menu.
From the Library panel, drag the Dialog Box-confirm movie clip to the center of the Stage.
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Close the Library panel.
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Add a stop() action

When a Flash application loads in Flash Player, it automatically plays in a continuous loop. You
use ActionScript to control playhead movement in a Timeline. You will add a
the first frame of your application so the user can make an entry in the input text field.
In the Timeline, with the Input Text layer selected, add a new layer and name it Actions.
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Select Frame 1 of the Actions layer.
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In the Actions panel (Window > Development Panels > Actions), verify that Frame 1 is selected.
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Click in the Script pane of the Actions panel, and type the following comment:
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playhead at Frame 1
Type ; to add the stop action.
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stop()
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. Press Enter or Return.
action in
stop()
//Stops the