MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004-USING ACTIONSCRIPT IN FLASH Use Manual page 335

reserved words 75
variable names 70
coding standards 82
organizing scripts 82
collisions, detecting 192
between movie clip and Stage point 193
between movie clips 193
colors
in Actions toolbox 144
values, setting 187
combining operations 55
comments 31
in classes 102
in code 77
communicating with the Flash Player 285
comparison operators 52
compile time, defined 9
completion, code 78
component-based architecture, defined 205
components, coding conventions 74
compound statements 91
concatenating strings 35
conditional statements 90
conditions, checking for 58
constants 24, 34, 72
constructor functions, sample 324
constructors
defined 25
overview 255
conventions 69
conversion functions 35
converting data types 35
counters, repeating action with 59
creating objects 198
CSS. See cascading style sheets
curly braces 30, 31, 32
checking for matching pairs 151
cursors, creating custom 182
custom functions 61
D
data types 34
assigning to elements 39
automatically assigning 40
casting 42
converting 35
declaring 41
defined 25
determining 43
MovieClip 37
null 39
Number 36
Object 37
strictly typing 41
String 35
undefined 39
data, external 275
access between cross-domain SWFs 289, 292
and LoadVars object 279
and messages 285
and server-side scripts 277
and XML 280
and XMLSocket object 284
checking if loaded 276
security features 288
sending and loading 275
Debug Player 153
Debugger
buttons in 161
Flash Debug Player 153
Properties tab 158
selecting from Context menu 156
setting breakpoints 159
using 153
variables 157
Watch list 158
debugging 153
compiler error messages 305
Debug Player 153
exception handling 12
from a remote location 155
listing objects 163
listing variables 164
text field properties 164
using the Output panel 162
with trace statement 165
Default Encoding 152
deprecated Flash 4 operators 311
depth
defined 215
determining for movie clips 216
determining instance at 216
determining next available 215
managing 215
detecting collisions 192
device fonts, masking 218
do-while statement 92
document-level classpaths 268, 269
DOM (Document Object Model), XML 280
domain names and security 288
Index 335