Now, I wanted to try out some other animation concepts. So let us set up our contact section and we can create some text for that. Now once again, if I need the same layout, I can just go right back to our templates. I will choose new out of the file menu, and again we are going to be in the templates tab, we will go right back to our TT layout category, and grab the same template robot content. And we will have created a brand new untitled file that once again, has all of our background elements and layout graphics built into it. And we move that over here to the center a little bit. And while we are at it let us save this untitled file as our Robot contact. I will just choose save from the file menu, we are back on our lesson five folder, and I am just going to use the same name, and convention I will just call this robots_contact.
Now I have got under a text file in the lesson five folder set up for our content, so I am just going to Alt tab back over to my desktop folder there and there we can see a contact text page. I am just going to double click it. And that should open up the default text editor which in this case is notepad. I am just going to select the phone number here and a tagline for the first piece of text. I will copy that and I will paste that into a static text field back in flash. So we will just hit Alt tab and of course that is going to be command tab on the Mac, go back to the flash file, and we need to set up our text field. Now, the first thing I will need is a layer to be able to put our text field into so once again, we have got layer one sitting here. I will just drag it to the top and I will call that layer text content.
Now we are ready to switch over to our text tool and I will just drag out to text field about half way, and paste that text on in. Now for an animation, I would like to animate the phone number here at the bottom, so I am going to take that out of this text field and give it its own field. In that way, we will be able to animate it separately. So I will just cut it out of that text field and we will get rid of this empty character returns by just hitting the backspace key a couple times. And let me scroll down here just a little bit. Create another field. We still have our text tool so I will just click once to clear our selection and I will just click to make a line text field, and paste our phone number right there.
Now let us arrange these two fields. I am going to take the top field and set it to a center alignment. That will look a little bit better for the tagline here. And we can play around with the wrapping so that near you appears on the bottom line. If we want to center these two elements up, the best way is probably to use our alignment panel so let us pull that one out. We have not had a good change to use it yet. Our align panel can be stacked right under the rest of the panels that we have been working with. And here all I have to do is select the two elements that we are interested in arranging, and I will use an align horizontal center, and that will center them up on each other.
Now the animation we want to do is for the phone number. And for starters, I think I would like to make this one just a little bit bigger. Now, it is set to a left align so I am going to switch it over to a center align. In that way when we change the text size, it will be scaling out from the center and we can make it a little bit more prominent on the page. Here we go and I might even change the color of it to red
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