MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-LEARNING ACTIONSCRIPT 2.0 IN FLASH - Page 26

26 What’s New in Flash 8 ActionScript
■ The letterSpacing property in the TextFormat class, which lets you specify the amount
of space that is uniformly distributed between characters.
■ The _alpha property in the Video class, which is the specified amount of transparency for
the video object.
■ The _height property in the Video class, which indicates the height of the video instance.
■ The _name property in the Video class, which indicates the instance name of the video.
■ The _parent property in the Video class, which indicates the movie clip instance or
object that contains the video instance.
■ The _rotation property in the Video class, which lets you set the amount of rotation of
the video instance in degrees.
■ The _visible property in the Video class, which lets you set the visibility of a
video instance.
■ The _width property in the Video class, which lets you set the width of the
video instance.
■ The _x property in the Video class, which lets you set the x coordinate of the
video instance.
■ The _xmouse property in the Video class, which lets you set the x coordinate of the mouse
pointer position.
■ The _xscale property in the Video class, which lets you set the horizontal scale
percentage of the video instance.
■ The _y property in the Video class, which lets you set the y coordinate of the
video instance.
■ The _ymouse property in the Video class, which lets you set the y coordinate of the mouse
pointer position.
■ The _yscale property in the Video class, which lets you set the vertical scale percentage
of the video instance.
■ The onHTTPStatus event handler in the XML class returns the status code that’s returned
from the server (for example, the value 404 for page not found). For more information,
see
onHTTPStatus (XML.onHTTPStatus handler) in the ActionScript 2.0 Language
Reference.
■ The localName property of the XMLNode class, which returns the full name of the XML
node object (including both the prefix and the local name).
■ The namespaceURI property of the XMLNode class, which reads the URI of the
namespace to which the XML node’s prefix resolves. For more information, see
namespaceURI (XMLNode.namespaceURI property) in the ActionScript 2.0 Language
Reference.