Introduction; Sample Entry For Most Actionscript Elements - MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-FLASH LITE 1.X ACTIONSCRIPT LANGUAGE Reference

Introduction

This manual describes the syntax and use of ActionScript elements as you use them to develop
applications for Flash Lite 1.0 and Flash Lite 1.1, collectively referred to as Flash Lite 1.x.
Flash Lite 1.x ActionScript is based on the version of ActionScript that was used in Flash 4. To
use examples in a script, copy the code example from this manual, and paste it into the Script
pane or into an external script file. The manual lists all ActionScript elements—operators,
keywords, statements, commands, properties, functions, classes, and methods.
Sample entry for most ActionScript
elements
The following sample entry explains the conventions used for all ActionScript elements.
Entry title
Entries are listed alphabetically within a chapter. The alphabetization ignores capitalization,
leading underscores, and so on.
Availability
Unless otherwise noted, the Availability section tells which versions of Flash Lite support
the element.
Usage
This section provides correct syntax for using the ActionScript element in your code. The
required portion of the syntax is in Both the code that you provide and data type
code font.
information are in . Data types can be distinguished from code that
italicized code font
you provide by the colon (:) that always precedes data type information. Brackets ( ) indicate
[]
optional parameters.
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