Index - MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004-USING ACTIONSCRIPT IN FLASH Use Manual

A
accessing object properties 56
actions
coding standards 83
repeating 59
Actions panel 140
Actions toolbox 141
yellow items in 144
ActionScript
comparing versions 84
editor 141, 144
Flash Player 85
interfaces 263
strict data typing not supported in ActionScript 1
42
writing 85
ActionScript 2.0
assigning ActionScript 2.0 class to movie clips 218
classes 99
comments 102
compiler error messages 305
organizing classes 100
overview 21, 247
prefixes 102
programming classes 102
ActiveX controls 288
adding notes to scripts 31
animation, symbols and 37
arguments. See parameters
array access operators 56
checking for matching pairs 151
arrays, multidimensional 57
ASCII values 184
function keys 315
keyboard keys 313
numeric keypad keys 314
other keys 316
ASO files 272
assignment operators
about 55
compound 55
different from equality operators 54
associativity, of operators 49
asynchronous actions 276
attaching, sounds 190
B
balance (sound), controlling 191
best practices
ActionScript 1 and ActionScript 2.0 84
coding conventions 69
coding standards 82
formatting code 76
formatting guidelines 95
functions 98
organizing Timeline 66
scope 95
using scenes 67
with FLA files 66
writing ActionScript 85
bitwise operators 54
Boolean values
comparing 53
defined 24
braces. See curly braces
brackets. See array access operators
breakpoints
about 159
and external files 159
setting in Debugger 159
broadcaster object 169
built-in functions 60

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