Adobe Flash CS3: The Professional Portfolio- P68:Now you can easily create web-ready images and animations within the familiar Adobe environment. With the recent acquisition of Macromedia, Adobe has added Flash to its suite of creative products, thus solidifying its position as the world's leading developer of graphic and visual communications tools. The Against The Clock Portfolio Series Flash title ensures that you'll learn everything you need to complete any job that requires Flash skills. | 5. In the Color panel Window Color double-click the left gradient stop to open the color picker for that stop. Choose 006666 as the new stop color. All four variations use the ScrollTrack Skin movie clip. Double-click the gradient stop to change the color of that stop. 6. Click Scene 1 in the Edit bar to return to the main Stage. Unfortunately the scroll track on the Stage does not show the modified color. This is a flaw or at least an oversight in the application. Your changes will reflect in the exported file. Ji Ä Scene 1 7. Press Command-Return Control-Enter to test the movie. The scroll track shows the modified gradient color. 8. Close the player window and return to Flash. 9 Save the file and continue to the next exercise. Project 7 Travel Video Module 322 dit Componcnt Text Stvics If you explore the skins of different components you might notice that the skins didn t include text areas where you could define styles for text in the area. Although it isn t necessary to understand the actual functionality that allows you to add text to the various components you do need to understand that you can t control text styles for these components in the Properties Inspector. Instead you need to use ActionScript. 1. With open add a new layer named Format Code to the top of the layer stack. 2. With Frame 1 of the new layer selected click in the script pane of the Actions panel to place the insertion point. 3. On line 1 of the script pane type the following import The first step to formatting text in a component instance is to import the StyleManager class. In most cases of keyframe scripts such as the ones you have built so far in this book you don t need to import classes. The StyleManager class is an exception you have to manually import this class into the script so the script will execute properly when you use StyleManager. 4- On line 3 of the script pane define a variable that is a new TextFormat object uar capStyle .