Project 7 - Craig Phillips

Project 7

What benefits of using TLF text did you learn?

I learned to format the text similar in manner to the way a professional publication would be. It's good to know how to embed the characteristics of the text, too. Especially the stuff that can be edited by users (because you still want to control the style of any inputs).

In what instances would you use classic text?

I would use classic text for animations or for text that doesn't need to be very dynamic (and therefore would take less memory or loading time).

How does the design of your buttons relate your user's experience?

I didn't design a button so much as I just made the link-able words stand out. I tried to make them very obvious (change of color and boldness) without alienating their look from the rest of the text on the page.

What challenges and benefits did you experience using TLF text to your movie?

TLF text made it really easy to maneuver the text around my other objects on the stage (ie: the images). It wasn't too challenging except for the fact that using TLF text usually seems to change the end product (the swf) in some small, often unnoticeable way. I don't know why this happens, besides maybe that there are so many formatting options, that some of them may overlap in code or something. It usually doesn't hurt the movie; it's just sort of confusing.