Setting up the ActionScript
On the frame that you put your text box on, in the "Actions" layer, open up the Actions menu in Expert Mode and type:
stop();
This, quite obviously, stops the document from entering the next frame.
Then we need to declare the 12 Variables that will be used in the script:
var textIn;
var textOut;
var textOut1;
var textArray;
var cursor;
var cursorS;
var num;
var numA;
var variance;
var flash
var flasher;
var flashrate;
Some of the variables need to be defined, as shown below, but you can change textIn to whatever you like:
textIn = "This text doesn't really say anything. In fact the only reason its here is because otherwise I wouldn't have anything to write a tutourial about. So if your reading this, your probably wasting your time. Sorry about that.";
textOut= " ";
num=-1;
variance=10;
The variance number can be anything between 0 and 30, depending on the speed and variance of the text being typed
numA=random(variance);
cursor = "|";
flash = 0;
flasher = true;
flashrate=10;
The cursor variable could also be "_" depending on what you are making
The next part splits textIn into individual letters and stores them in textArray:
textArray = textIn.split("");
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Added: 2009-08-14 Rating: 4.7 Votes: 10 |
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