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copied!<p>Changed answer to full instructions because the asker is probably missing a key step through the Flash GUI.</p> <ol> <li>Open Adobe Flash CS5 (might work for CS4 too.)</li> <li>File, New, Actionscript 3.0.</li> <li>Click the text tool. Draw a TextField.</li> <li>Click the TextField, in the Properties window select Input Text in the drop down.</li> <li>With the TextField still selected, in the Properties window, set the Instance Name to "tField" no quotes.</li> <li>Click on the stage. In the Properties window set the Class: text field to "Main" no quotes.</li> <li>File, Save As, "Test.fla" no quotes.</li> <li>File, New, Actionscript 3.0 class.</li> <li><p>Paste the following in to the new AS file:</p> <p>package {</p> <pre><code>import flash.display.MovieClip; import flash.events.FullScreenEvent; import flash.events.MouseEvent; import flash.events.Event; public class Main extends MovieClip { public function Main() { var another:Another = new Another(this.tField); } } </code></pre> <p>}</p></li> <li><p>File, Save As, "Main.as" no quotes, IN THE SAME DIRECTORY AS STEP 3.</p></li> <li>File, New, Actionscript 3.0 class.</li> <li><p>Paste the following code into the new .as file (I can't get StackOverflow to display this correctly. Just paste it as is):</p> <p>package { import flash.text.TextField; public class Another { public function Another(textField:TextField) { textField.text = "Hello"; } } }</p></li> <li><p>File, Save As, "Another.as" no quotes, in the SAME DIRECTORY AS STEP 3.</p></li> <li>Hit Ctrl-Enter.</li> </ol> <p>All drawing a TextField on the stage and setting its instance name does is secretly add the lines of code:</p> <pre><code>public var tField:TextField = new TextField(); tField.type = "input"; </code></pre> <p>To whatever class the stage is associated with (in this case, the class Main.) If you need any more help than that, I would recommend getting a good book on AS3 programming and the Flash IDE because the answer is well beyond the scope of a simple StackOverflow answer.</p>

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