MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004-FLASH JAVASCRIPT DICTIONARY User Manual - Chapter 2
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CHAPTER 2
Getting Started
Flash Lite features
This section describes, at a high level, the features and restrictions for authoring a Flash Lite
compatible movie. For different target devices there may be further feature restrictions or
enhancements. Please consult the appropriate authoring guidelines document for details.
Navigation and key events
Macromedia Flash Lite reserves certain keys for navigation. The exact keys depend on the specific
device. Consult the appropriate authoring guidelines document for details.
You can use ActionScript to retrieve input from other device keys. Again, the exact keys depend
on the device. Consult your authoring guidelines document for details.
Text and fonts
Macromedia Flash Lite generally includes support for both device and embedded fonts. You can
use embedded fonts to give you more control over the design of the movie, but this will increase
the overall SWF file size. Using device text is generally limited to a single font style and size,
depending on the device, but helps keep the SWF file size small.
For dynamic and input text fields, special text formatting is limited to justification (left, center,
right) and color. The formatting options kerning and spacing, bold, and italic styles are not
supported.
Flash Lite supports only single-line input text fields; there is no support for line-wrapping. Text is
not edited in place, but in a separate page. Both Latin1-based and Shift-JIS character sets are
supported, depending on the device.
Because most mobile devices do not support mouse-based navigation, it is not meaningful to set
input text fields as selectable.