Learning Some Basics

Hey gang,
I've been learning al I can for the past few days but I'm
still green as spring tree. Right now, I'm trying to customize a
template so that the drop shadow text reflects the standard text I
have already customized. It pulls up in the main window from the
library with the standard text in front. I can edit the standard
text it to my own specs, but when I attempt to click on the drop
shadow text behind it for editing, nothing happens. It does not
appear to be editable text or an image that I can replace via
import. Does anyone know what it is and how I can manipulate it.
I'm working off a template in MX flash 7.2. I can move the main
text and the drop shadow behind it around to different parts of the
window, but only the main text becomes editable when I double
click.
thanks
Midnight

really hard to say without seeing the FLA - could be a flash
8 filter or an imported bitmap (PNG
with transparency) - could be hard to select because the
layer is locked, or it is on same layer as
actual text but under it and therefore need to move top text
to a new layer and then lock that
etc....templates often pose a myriad problems for newbies as
they could be built any number of ways
using any number of assets and very hard to reverse-engineer
if you are not familiar with the basics
to begin with - can you upload the FLA so we can download and
take a look?
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M_Magic wrote:
> Hey gang,
>
> I've been learning al I can for the past few days but
I'm still green as
> spring tree. Right now, I'm trying to customize a
template so that the drop
> shadow text reflects the standard text I have already
customized. It pulls up
> in the main window from the library with the standard
text in front. I can
> edit the standard text it to my own specs, but when I
attempt to click on the
> drop shadow text behind it for editing, nothing happens.
It does not appear to
> be editable text or an image that I can replace via
import. Does anyone know
> what it is and how I can manipulate it. I'm working off
a template in MX flash
> 7.2. I can move the main text and the drop shadow behind
it around to
> different parts of the window, but only the main text
becomes editable when I
> double click.
>
> thanks
> Midnight
>

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> Hello all,
> I have some basic questions on XI and File Adapter
> and hope you can help me. Any answer is appreciated.
>
>
> 1. Can I use NFS transport protocol to poll a file
> from a machine in the network, which is not the XI?
yes
> Or do I have to use FTP instead?
>
also you can do it
> 2. If I understand it correctly - when using the
> FTP-File Adapter, XI has the role of a ftp client. I
> have to run a ftp server on my distant machine. XI
> connects to FTP-Server and polls the file.
> Can it also be configured the other way round? The
> scenario I think of would be: FTP client installed on
> distant machine, which connects to FTP-Server(XI) and
> loads up a file. So XI would act as FTP Server.
> I know this works, if I install a ftp Server on the
> computer my XI runs on, and use the NFS-File Adapter
> to observe the folder. But I want to know, if I need
> a second, independant ftp server for this.
>
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> 3. And last but not least: When do I need the active
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>
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