Who said we couldn't have advanced effects in Flash? This is the classic Lens Flare effect applied on a backgrond image and a message. The flare effect will move together with the mouse pointer when you move it across the applet.

Colors

Here you can set the background, text and highlight colors.

Fonts

Here you can here specify the text size (in pixels), the text alignment and the font. 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 on it's own line. See the section Entering Text Or Files for more information.

Message pause and letter delay

This is the pause before a new message appear (in 83 ms units). The letter delay will set the delay between the apparition of each letter, make sure not to differ much from the default value 2.

Background image

This effect supports a background image. Using the background image will replace the background color setting.

Limitations

Due to a limitation in Flash Player 5.0, you can have a maximum of 200 messages in the Flash applet. More than that, and the applet will not work.

Other settings

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

The Flash Applet Size Parameters
URL Links and Frame Targets
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
Compression Ratios for images

Anibal Wainstein