Today is our Independence Day! This messenger has been inspired from the inital effect in the movie with the same name. It's time to make your visitors cry with envy!

Fonts

You can here specify the text alignment (left, right or centered text), the text size (in pixels) and the font. We recommend using centered text for this particular messenger. This applet supports FFT files.

Entering messages and URLs

Make sure you have the same amount of URLs as you have messages. Enter each message in it's own line. See the section Entering Text Or Files for more information.

Movement settings

The animation speed will increase the speed of each letter's movement. Don't let it be too large, values about 2-4 are good.

Message pause

This is the pause between each message.

Background image and background color

The background image will be used instead of the background color. Leave this field blank if you want to use the background color setting instead. Use the compression setting to decrease the SWF file size. The background color will affect the shadowing of each letter when they are turned away from you. We recommend setting this color to a color similar to the background image. If you do not have a background image, then the effect will work just as well.

Limitations

Due to a limitation in the Flash player, you can only have a maximum line size of 100 characters, that means you can display a text line with 100 letters at the most.

Other settings

There are other settings that are discussed on the following topics from the Advanced Effect Maker documentation:

The Flash Applet Size Parameters
Working With Text Fields
Entering Text Or Files
Working with fonts
Working With File Fields And File Lists
Working With Time Delays and Pauses
Working With Color Buttons
Working with Check Boxes
Compression Ratios for images
Combining Flash applet effects

Version history

1.1 : Added support for the ActionScript LoadMovie() command, which means that the effect can now be inserted into Macromedia Flash FLA projects. You can now load other .swf files or disable the links by entering empty links.

Anibal Wainstein