Flash Script – Cursor-Responsive Text

1. Create a text field, name it "txt", and then convert it to a movieclip.

2. Give the movie clip an instance name of "a1".

3. Create a new movieclip and give it an instance name of "a0".

4. Create layers as shown below.

5. In the actions layer in the first key frame, insert the following action:

x = new Array();  

y = new Array();  

text = "Flashcircle.com";  

 

// mx x value of movieclip  

mx = getProperty("/a1", _x);  

txtlength = length(text);  

/a1:txt = "F";  

 

//loop through to create duplicate movieclip  

for (i=2; i<=txtlength; i++)  

{  

duplicateMovieClip ("/a1", "a" add i, i);  

setProperty ("/a" add Number(i), _x, mx);  

 

// substring to put individual letter into movieclip  

set ("/a" add Number(i) add ":txt", substring(text, i, 1));  

} 

6. In the actions layer in the third key frame, insert these actions:

//code to make the text follow  

for(i=1; i<=txtlength; i++)  

{  

x[i] = getProperty("/a" add Number(i-1),_x);  

y[i] = getProperty("/a" add Number(i-1),_y);  

x[i] = x[i]+10;  

} 

7. In the actions layer in the fourth key frame, insert the following:

//code to make the text follow  

for (i=1; i<=txtlength; i++)  

{  

setProperty ("/a" add i, _x, x[i]);  

setProperty ("/a" add i, _y, y[i]);  

}  

gotoAndPlay (2); 

8. Right click the "a0" instance movie clip, and insert these actions:

onClipEvent (load)  

{  

startDrag ("", true);  

} 

9. Easy, wasn’t it? Press ctrl+enter to test you movie.