MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-EXTENDING FLASH Manual page 423

symbolInstance.description
Availability
Flash MX 2004.
Usage
symbolInstance.description
Description
Property; a string that is equivalent to the Description field in the Accessibility panel. The
description is read by the screen reader. This property is not available for graphic symbols.
Example
The following example stores the value for the Accessibility panel description of the object in
the variable:
theDescription
var theDescription = fl.getDocumentDOM().selection[0].description;
The following example sets the value for the Accessibility panel description to "Click the
home button to go to home":
fl.getDocumentDOM().selection[0].description= "Click the home button to go
to home";
symbolInstance.filters
Availability
Flash 8.
Usage
symbolInstance.filters
Description
Property; an array of Filter objects (see Filter object). To modify filter properties, you don't
write to this array directly. Instead, retrieve the array, set the individual properties, and then
set the array to reflect the new properties.
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