MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004-USING COMPONENTS Use Manual page 113

Accordion.numChildren
Availability
Flash Player 6 (6.0 79.0).
Edition
Flash MX Professional 2004.
Usage
myAccordion.numChildren
Description
Property (inherited from View); indicates the number of children (of type UIObject) in an
Accordion instance. Headers are not counted as children.
Each accordion child is given an index number for its position. This index number is zero-based,
so the first child is 0, the second child is 1, and so on. The code
always refers to the last child added to an accordion. For example, if there were seven children in
an accordion, the last child would have the index 6. The
so the value of
myAccordion.numChildren
index number of the last child.
Example
The following example selects the last child:
myAccordion.selectedIndex = myAccordion.numChildren - 1;
Accordion.selectedChild
Availability
Flash Player 6 (6.0 79.0).
Edition
Flash MX Professional 2004.
Usage
myAccordion.selectedChild
Description
Property; the selected child (of type UIObject) if one or more children exist;
children exist.
If the accordion has children, the code
myAccordion.getChildAt(myAccordion.selectedIndex)
Setting this property to a child causes the accordion to begin the transition animation to display
the specified child.
Changing the value of
would be 7. The result of 7 - 1 is 6, which is the
myAccordion.selectedChild
also changes the value of
selectedChild
myAccordion.numChild - 1
numChildren
.
selectedIndex
Accordion component (Flash Professional only)
property is not zero-based,
if no
undefined
is equivalent to the code
.
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