Very easy and simple tutorial to show you how to create basic password protection for your flash projects. The result should look like this:

     All we need is button with instance name set to pw_btn and input text field with instance name pw_txt. We can set the input texfield behaviour to password and everything typed in will be displayed as *. You can change texfield behaviours in their properties/ paragraph menu.



Now select frame one and enter following actionscript.

stop();

function Password(evt:MouseEvent):void {
	if(pw_txt.text == "admin"){
		gotoAndStop(3);
	}else{
		gotoAndStop(2);
	}	
}

pw_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, Password);

     Line 3 is definition of Password function. Line 4 checks if entered password matches the required string. In this case it is admin. If string in input text fiels matches password, function jumps to frame 3. If password does not match function jumps to frame 2. Ofcourse what happens in this two cases is entirely up to you to decide. Last line adds event listener to the button, meaning if the button is clicked, execute Password function. This kind of password protection can be easily changed to login option by just adding name input text field and changing line 4 to something like this:

			if(pw_txt.text == "admin" && name_txt.text == "Bob"){
				//function body..
			}