You want to display text within a movie.
Set the text property of a text field.
Aside from being used as input fields, text fields are often used to display text to the user. Setting a text field's text property causes the corresponding text to display in the field.
myTextField.text = "this will display in the field";
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Special characters, such as \t for tab and \n for newline, can be used within a text string.
Displaying text programmatically in a movie is useful for many reasons. If a movie contains dynamic or frequently updated text, the values can be loaded from an external source, such as a database or XML document, and then programmatically displayed in text fields.
The trace( ) command displays text in Flash's Output window, but the window is available during authoring only. You can use a text field to display output at runtime using a custom function:
function traceText (msg) { myTextField.text += msg + newline; } traceText ("Here's my message");
Recipe 8.1 and Recipe 8.2. See Recipe 8.10 for information on support for HTML-formatted text.