OK, some ideas on creating a crossword game in Flash/ActionScript:
The Playing Area
First thing to do is to create a square for your puzzle. Create a white square with a black border. Put a text box in this square and set it to be dynamic text. Select this square and text box and convert it to a movie clip symbol (F8). Double click on this symbol to edit it. Create a new frame for the symbol and fill the square in black. So you now should have an embedded movie clip with two frames - a white square and a black square.
Now you want to copy & paste this symbol 99 times (or less depending on your grid size) and put them in a 10 x 10 grid. Each time you paste a new symbol, give it a new instance name relating to it's position in the grid (e.g. x1y1, x1y2 etc.)
From this you should be able to programmatically set if a square is white or black by calling something like:
Code:
x1y7.gotoAndStop(2);
. Try labelling your frames to make this code even easier to read.
Representing the grid
I would represent my crossword puzzle using a 2D array. Something like below:
Code:
var answerGrid = [
['#', 'H', '#', 'T', 'O'],
['#', 'E', '#', 'H', '#'],
['#', 'L', '#', 'E', '#'],
['#', 'L', 'I', 'F', 'E'],
['#', 'O', '#', 'T', '#'],
];
Something like that - a # representing a black square, a letter representing what should be in that square.
Then it's a case of using the onClick method of the symbol you created earlier to check it's position in the grid, check what the user answered against what's in the square in the answer grid and acting apropriately.
I know all that isn't much help but it would take me a fair while to write a concise tutorial about creating a crossword game.
Lee,
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