Why won't it let me select the text I want to change?

Hi. Could you explain to me what you have to do and what you have

done? Maybe if I reproduce the code in my Flash I could help.

MamenFLASH$

El 23/01/2010, a las 22:28, Xfoto escribió:

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This is the most frustrating program ever. No where can I find an

answer

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I've tried everything I've read on how to change text but I can

never get the selection tool to select the text. Some say use the T

tool but all that does is create a new white box over top of it to

type new text in

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The layer isn't locked and the closest I can get is a blue box

around the button. Well it's not a button and in the library the

icon is a movie clip. Its also in my "bitmaps" folder as and image?

(tree icon) Does that matter? I'm begining to think this is a whole

image? Am I right or not?

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Thanks

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if you drag a bitmap item (tree icon) from the library onto the stage and you see the text you are trying to edit... then yes the text is in an image and not editable.

If you want to edit text that is buried inside something, then you probably just need to keep doubleclicking at the textfield in question until you eventually break things down to where you've actually accessed the textfield.

Once you are down to the actual textfield you can either doubleclick it with the selection tool or click once with the text tool to open it up for entering text.

Try creating just a textfield by itself and see how to access its text using these tools as I've described.