Ultrashock Tutorials > Flash 8 > Alt Captions  
 
by Julian Wilson, Neverrain.net
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Alt Captions
 
 Introduction: Alt Captions
 Step 01: Getting started

 Step 02: Caption Class
 Step 03: Finishing up
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Introduction

Many new cutting edge websites make use of alt captions to help explain links with more detail. While HTML has built in functionality for such things, Flash does not. In this article I’ll explain how to not only make reusable alt captions, but with more functionality than HTML! You will need to be fairly familiar with object-orientated programming in Actionscript before continuing.

Directory Structure

caption/
caption/actionscript

You can upload the caption folder anywhere on your server without path issues since we will be using relative paths.

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