MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-EXTENDING FLASH Manual page 370

Example
The following example checks to see if the first screen in the outline is hidden and changes the
visibility of the screen accordingly. Then, a message in the Output panel shows what the
visibility of the screen was before the change:
if (fl.getDocumentDOM().screenOutline.screens[0].hidden) {
fl.getDocumentDOM().screenOutline.setScreenProperty("hidden", false);
fl.trace(fl.getDocumentDOM().screenOutline.screens[0].name+" had its
'hidden' property set to 'false'");
}
else {
fl.getDocumentDOM().screenOutline.setScreenProperty("hidden", true);
fl.trace(fl.getDocumentDOM().screenOutline.screens[0].name+" had its
'hidden' property set to 'true'");
}
screen.instanceName
Availability
Flash MX 2004.
Usage
screen.instanceName
Description
Read-only property; a string that represents the instance name used to access the object from
ActionScript.
Example
The following example checks to see if the current document allows screens (because it is a
slide or form). Then, it assigns the
the
myInstanceName
the screen:
var myChildren = new Array();
if(fl.getDocumentDOM().allowScreens) {
var myInstanceName =
fl.getDocumentDOM().screenOutline.rootScreen.childScreens[0].instanceNam
e;
fl.trace(" The instanceName is "+myInstanceName+". ");
}
370 Objects
instanceName
variable and opens the Output panel to show the instance name of
value of the first child screen in the array to