Some suggestions to try on your own

There are countless ways you could expand on the file from this lesson. Here are a few ideas:

• The scroll bar in the workArea_mc movie clip is always visible in this lesson. Use the techniques demonstrated in Lesson 8, “Creating and Formatting Text with ActionScript,” to show and hide the scroll bar as text is added or removed from the text field.
  
  
• Create your own custom icons in your favorite graphics application and set them as the icons for the AIR application. Remember that they need to be saved as PNG files at the exact sizes described in this lesson.
  
  
• Use the filter techniques covered in Lesson 12, “Delving Deeper into Graphics and Animation with ActionScript,” to apply a filter to the image that you drag into the project from this lesson. Print files with the filters applied to them.
  
  
• Use a TextFormat object to format text that you drag into this application.
  
  
• Add a Camera object to the workArea_mc clip and include that in your printouts.
  
  
• Create AIR applications from some of the other lesson projects that you’ve completed. Try creating AIR applications from some of your own Flash projects.