MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-LEARNING ACTIONSCRIPT 2.0 IN FLASH Manual page 358

Some properties, called read-only properties, have values that you can read but cannot set.
(These properties are specified as read-only in their ActionScript 2.0 Language Reference
entries.) The following are read-only properties:
,
_framesloaded _parent
You can write statements to set any property that is not read-only. The following statement
sets the property of the
_alpha
instance:
car_mc
car_mc.wheel_mc._alpha = 50;
In addition, you can write statements that get the value of a movie clip property. For example,
the following statement gets the value of the
and sets the property of the
_x
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
my_mc._x = _root._xmouse;
};
This is equivalent to the following code, which uses the
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
my_mc._x = getProperty(_root, _xmouse);
};
The , ,
_x _y _rotation
properties are affected by transformations on the movie clip's parent, and transform the movie
clip and any of the clip's children. The
properties are global; they belong only to the level 0 main timeline. All other
_soundbuftime
properties belong to each movie clip or loaded level.
For a list of movie clip properties, see the property summary for the MovieClip class in
the ActionScript 2.0 Language Reference.
For an example of scripted animation in Flash, you can find a sample source file,
animation.fla, in the Samples folder on your hard disk.
In Windows, browse to boot drive\Program Files\Macromedia\Flash 8\Samples and
Tutorials\Samples\ActionScript\Animation.
On the Macintosh, browse to Macintosh HD/Applications/Macromedia Flash 8/Samples
and Tutorials/Samples/ActionScript/Animation.
You can find samples of photo gallery applications on your hard disk.These files provide
examples of how to use ActionScript to control movie clips dynamically while loading image
files into a SWF file, which includes scripted animation. You can find the sample source files,
gallery_tree.fla and gallery_tween.fla, in the Samples folder on your hard disk.
In Windows, browse to boot drive\Program Files\Macromedia\Flash 8\Samples and
Tutorials\Samples\ActionScript\Galleries.
358 Working with Movie Clips
, ,
_target _totalframes
movie clip instance, which is a child of the
wheel_mc
instance to that value:
my_mc
, , ,
_xscale _yscale
_focusrect
,
_currentframe
, ,
_url _xmouse
property on the current level's timeline
_xmouse
getProperty()
, ,
_height _width _alpha
,
_highquality
,
_droptarget
, and .
_ymouse
function:
, and
_visible
, , and
_quality