{"id":16482,"date":"2012-04-05T07:49:21","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T11:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/?p=16482"},"modified":"2012-04-18T09:46:45","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T13:46:45","slug":"xml-flash-how-to-deal-with-long-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/xml-flash-how-to-deal-with-long-text.html","title":{"rendered":"XML Flash. How to deal with long text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this tutorial we will learn how to deal with longer text in XML Flash Templates.<\/p>\r\n<p>In this example we are going to change the <strong>People<\/strong> category name to a longer text. We will learn how to fix the <strong>Cut off<\/strong> and <strong>Overlapping<\/strong> issues.<\/p>\r\n<a href=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/longer_text_xml_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/longer_text_xml_1-300x108.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"longer_text_xml_1\" width=\"300\" height=\"108\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/longer_text_xml_1-300x108.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/longer_text_xml_1.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n<p>Open the <strong>main.xml<\/strong> file from <strong>sources\/flash<\/strong> folder.<\/p>\r\n<a href=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/longer_text_xml_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/longer_text_xml_2-300x108.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"longer_text_xml_2\" width=\"300\" height=\"108\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/longer_text_xml_2-300x108.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/longer_text_xml_2.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n<p>Find the text (category name) which we want to change and change the <strong>People<\/strong> title to <strong>Longer text here<\/strong>.<\/p>\r\n<a href=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/longer_text_xml_3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/longer_text_xml_3-300x108.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"longer_text_xml_3\" width=\"300\" height=\"108\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/longer_text_xml_3-300x108.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/longer_text_xml_3.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\r\n<p>Save this file.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Open the <strong>.FLA<\/strong> file from <strong>sources\/flash<\/strong> folder in Adobe Flash program.<\/p>\r\n<p>Using the library locate the category menu movie clip. In this example, we are looking for <strong>menugall<\/strong> movie clip.<\/p>\r\n<p>Open the <strong>menugall<\/strong> movie clip in the Scene. Find category menu objects and spread them out in the Scene. This way, we will make some room for a longer text.<\/p>\r\n<a href=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/longer_text_xml_4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/longer_text_xml_4-300x182.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"longer_text_xml_4\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/longer_text_xml_4-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/longer_text_xml_4.jpg 944w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n<p>Once that is done, find the object, which will hold more text. Double click on it to get inside that movie clip.<\/p>\r\n<p>You will find various layers for the text, animation, hit and a mask.<\/p>\r\n<p>Find that mask layer and extend it using the <strong>Free Transform<\/strong> tool.<\/p>\r\n<a href=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/longer_text_xml_5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/longer_text_xml_5-300x142.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"longer_text_xml_5\" width=\"300\" height=\"142\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/longer_text_xml_5-300x142.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/longer_text_xml_5.jpg 911w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n<p>Check for other <strong>mask<\/strong> layers, which may be hidden.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Publish your .FLA file to see the preview.<\/p>\r\n<a href=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/longer_text_xml_6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/longer_text_xml_6-300x99.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"longer_text_xml_6\" width=\"300\" height=\"99\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/longer_text_xml_6-300x99.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/longer_text_xml_6.jpg 579w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>Feel free to check the detailed video tutorial below:<\/p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"\/help\/files\/Flash\/how_to_deal_with_longer_text_in_xml_templates(34056).htm\" target=\"blank\">XML Flash. How to deal with long text<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this tutorial we will learn how to deal with longer text in XML Flash Templates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":16840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[279,287],"tags":[486,518,570],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16482"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}