You ever see one of those things where you move the mouse around the screen, and some text, like “Loading…” follows it around, but the letters move at different speeds? Well, I figured out how to do it in Flash the easy way. The hard way is to write out your message beforehand, break it down, make individual movie clips, give them instance names, and then program them to move where they need to be. This method is preferrable if you want to use really fancy text, but otherwise I’ve created a dynamic method - where you specify what it says simply by changing one string in the 28 lines of code.
Check it out.
