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About text in Flash Lite

Flash Lite supports three types of text fields: static, dynamic, and input. A static text field has content that doesn't change during playback. For example, you might use static text fields to display page titles or labels. For more information about creating a static text field, see Text field example application.

Dynamic text fields let you control the content at runtime. You can associate an ActionScript variable name with a dynamic text field that you can refer to in code. For example, if you are making a calculator in Flash Lite, you would use a dynamic text field to show calculation results. For more information about using dynamic text fields, see Assigning a variable name to a text field.

An input text field is like a dynamic text field, except that a user can interact with an input text field to open the device's generic input dialog box to provide text input. For more information about using input text fields, see Using input text fields.

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