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Create a dynamic text field

Now you'll create a dynamic text field. Instead of typing text into the field, you'll specify the variable text that loads into the field at runtime.

1

In the Timeline, select the Copy layer. In the toolbox, select the Text tool. In the Property inspector, select Dynamic Text from the Text Type pop-up menu.

2

In the Font pop-up menu, select _sans.

_sans is a device font appropriate for small text that appears on multiple computer platforms. For more information about device fonts, see Using device fonts (horizontal text only).

3

In the Point Size text box, type 12.

4

Click the Text (fill) Color box and select yellow, with a hexadecimal value of FFCC00.

5

In the Line Type pop-up menu, select Multiline, which is for multiple lines of text that will wrap.

6

On the Stage, click below the logo. Drag the pointer to create a text field the width of the logo text and the approximate depth of the vertical line that's grouped with the logo, as shown in the following illustration.

7

In the Property inspector, type textField in the Var text box.

The text file that will load into the dynamic text field, as seen in the following illustration, includes text that names the variable: textField=. When you enter this name in the Var text box, you are naming the variable that the movie should load.