Recipe 12.10. Adding Titles and Captions to a Slideshow Using the Flash 8 Cookbook Components

Problem

You want to add titles and/or captions to the images in your slideshow that you have created using the SlideShow component.

Solution

Add title and/or caption attributes to the tags within the XML document, and add dynamic text fields named tTitle and tCaption to your Flash document.

Discussion

The SlideShow component allows you to specify title and caption text for each image by adding attributes to the XML tags. Each nested tag can have a title attribute and a caption attribute, as shown in the following example:

	<images>
	  <image url="one.jpg title="Image One" caption="The first image" />
	  <image url="two.jpg title="Image Two" caption="The second image" />
	  <image url="three.jpg title="Image Three" caption="The third image" />
	  <image url="four.jpg title="Image Four" caption="The fourth image" />
	</images>

Flash will then look for dynamic text fields named tTitle and tCaption located within the same timeline in which you have placed the SlideShow instance. The component will automatically assign the corresponding title and caption values to the text fields as each image appears.

See Also

Recipe 12.9