In Macromedia Director, I mean Adobe, there are two main forms of text which you can add to your movies and even add various interactivity to these text types. These are regular and field text. Briefly, regular
text allows for paragraph formatting, kerning, line spacing and other functions found within the Text Inspector menu. On the other hand field text
“is standard text controlled by your system software, the same as the text you see in dialog boxes
and menu bars. Director does not anti-alias field text or support paragraph formatting and tabs for fields”
Basically, regular text has the advantage of the features offered by the Text inspeactor allowing for various formatting. However, it is best suited for large types. On the contrary, field text
is best suited to create the smallest possible text cast members that don’t need to be anti-aliased.
To add regular text, simply:
1. Left click on your text tool within Director, it resembles an ‘A’. Then left click again onto your stage. You may now edit the text to your liking.
or
2. Go to Insert>Media Element>Text
To create rollover on the regular text add the following script piece(s) to the cast member.
on mouseEnter
member("text").fontStyle = [#bold,#italic,#underline] --style change
member("text").forecolor = 3 --changes the colour of text
member("text").fontSize = 20
end
on mouseLeave
member("text").fontStyle = [#plain]
member("text").forecolor = 50 --changes text to some other colour
member("text").fontSize = 14 --changes size of font
end
or..
on mouseWithin me
member("text").fontStyle = [#bold,#italic,#underline]--style change
member("text").forecolor = 3 --changes the colour of text
member("text").fontSize = 20
end
on mouseLeave
member("text").fontStyle = [#plain]
member("text").forecolor = 50 --changes text to some other colour
member("text").fontSize = 14
--changes size of font
end
That’s it!
