Chapter 1: About Flash Lite 1.X Actionscript; Flash Lite 1.X Actionscript Overview - MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-LEARNING FLASH LITE 1.X ACTIONSCRIPT Manual

CHAPTER 1
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About Flash Lite 1.x
ActionScript
You use ActionScript to add programming logic and interactivity to your Macromedia Flash
Lite applications. The version of ActionScript in Flash Lite 1.0 and 1.1—referred to
collectively as Flash Lite 1.x ActionScript—is a hybrid of Flash 4 ActionScript, plus additional
commands and properties specific the Flash Lite player, such as the ability to initiate phone
calls or text messages, or get time and date information from the device.
This chapter contains the following topics:

Flash Lite 1.x ActionScript overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Differences between Flash Lite 1.0 and Flash Lite 1.1 ActionScript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Flash 4 ActionScript not supported by Flash Lite 1.x ActionScript. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Features not available in Flash Lite 1.x ActionScript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Flash Lite 1.x ActionScript overview
Flash Lite 1.x ActionScript consists of the following parts:
Flash Player 4 ActionScript This includes operators (for example, comparison and
assignment operators), movie clip properties (for example, , , and ), Timeline
_height _x _y
control functions (for example, or ), and network functions, such as
gotoAndPlay() stop()
the and functions (Flash Lite 1.1 only). For a list of
loadVariables() loadMovie()
unsupported Flash 4 ActionScript, see "Flash 4 ActionScript not supported by Flash Lite 1.x
ActionScript" on page 6.
Phone integration commands and properties Flash Lite provides commands that let you,
for example, query the date and time information from the device, initiate a phone call or
short message service (SMS) text message, or start external applications installed on
the device.
Platform capability variables (Flash Lite 1.1 only)
These properties provide information
about the capabilities of the device or Flash Lite runtime environment. For example, the
variable indicates if your application can load data over the network.
_capLoadData
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