Macromedia flash mx 2004 User Guide

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Chapter 2:  Developing Content

Emoji

i-mode phones support special pictographic characters called Emoji. The following characters are 
examples of Emoji:

These are encoded by replacing characters in the standard Shift-JIS table. As long as the phone’s 
font supports Emoji encoded as standard Shift-JIS characters, Flash Lite can display them.

When authoring using Flash, you first need to ensure that you have Shift-JIS fonts installed on 
your desktop authoring system. You also need to select a Shift-JIS font for the text fields in which 
you want to display Emoji characters.

Note: The phone’s font set controls the color and appearance of Emoji characters.

For further information about Emoji, see 

i-mode compatible HTML

i-mode browsers can directly run Flash Lite movies, or movies can be embedded in i-mode 
compatible HTML web pages. 

The i-mode compatible HTML specification is based on a subset of HTML 2.0, HTML 3.2, and 
HTML 4.0 specifications that DoCoMo extended with tags and attributes for special use on 
mobile phones. As an example, extensions include the 

tel

 URL protocol, which is used to link to 

a phone number and let users initiate a phone call.

For information on i-mode compatible HTML, see 

ActionScript and properties

Flash Lite for i-mode supports most Flash 4 ActionScript commands. The following are notable 
exceptions:

•

Use the 

add

 operator instead of the 

&

 command to concatenate strings.

•

Button mouse events such as 

dragOver

,

 dragOut

, and 

releaseOutside

 cannot be used to 

trigger ActionScript attached to buttons. However, in addition to keypress events, the events 

press

, 

release

, 

rollOver

, and 

rollOut 

can be used to trigger ActionScript when attached 

to buttons and accessed through key-based navigation.

•

Draggable movie clip functions and properties (for example: 

startDrag

, 

stopDrag

, and 

_dropTarget

 properties) are not supported.

•

Use the 

eq

 operator to compare strings and the 

==

 operator for numeric comparison.

•

URL encoding must be done manually using ActionScript. The 

escape()

 ActionScript 

function is not a Flash 4 function and is not available in Flash Lite. 

•

The

 fscommand()

 function is not supported.

•

The default Quality level for Flash Lite during playback is medium and there is no support for 
bitmap smoothing.