# Complete Newbie needing help!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/complete-newbie-needing-help/204782>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [October 23, 2006, 2:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/complete-newbie-needing-help/204782 "2006-10-23T14:03:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![FastBlueLion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FastBlueLion](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/FastBlueLion)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 2:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/complete-newbie-needing-help/204782/1 "2006-10-23T14:03:29Z")

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Hi all,

I joined a couple of weeks back because I needed a little help, well a lot of help I suppose!

I need to create a vehicle number plate designer for the web. It’s for a mates website and I owe him a favour. I figured flash would be a good place to start, bet there lies a problem. I have no experience with Flash. I can draw shapes and animate them, only I’ve no idea how to have a text box where people can enter their vehicle registration and it show them on the screen what it’d look like. Does this make sense so far?

From what I have read, I can do this in two ways. I can include fonts in the flash file or I can use images. (I have both). What I need to do is be able to type in a registration (i.e. A123 ABC) and click a button (e.g. “Show My Plates”) and it to give a representation of the finished item on screen. There’s also badges (i.e. GB etc), several different font designs, borders and text along the bottom of the plate.

I realise I’ve bitten off more than I can chew, but I need to sort this out as cheaply as possible therefore I want to write it.

Can anyone give me any pointers etc? Or a suitable bunch of tutorials I might be able to adapt?

Many Thanks

FastBlueLion:jail:

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**Author:** ![FastBlueLion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FastBlueLion](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/FastBlueLion)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 10:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/complete-newbie-needing-help/204782/2 "2006-10-24T22:29:20Z")

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I take it thats a no then? ☹

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**Author:** ![Sinister\_Rouge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Sinister\_Rouge](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Sinister_Rouge)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 10:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/complete-newbie-needing-help/204782/3 "2006-10-24T22:47:23Z")

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pm me, I’d be happy to lend a hand. My schedule is pretty tight so it might take a bit but if you’re not in a major rush, I’d be happy to help out.