About coding in the Actions panel and Script window 47
3. To dismiss the code hint, do one of the following:
■ Type a closing parens [)].
■ Click outside the statement.
■ Press Escape.
To work with menu-style code hints:
1. Display the code hint by typing a period after the variable or object name.
The code hint menu appears.
2. To navigate through the code hints, use the Up and Down Arrow keys.
3. To select an item in the menu, press Enter or Tab, or double-click the item.
4. To dismiss the code hint, do one of the following:
■ Select one of the menu items.
■ Click above or below the menu window.
■ Type a closing parens [)] if you’ve already typed an opening parens [(].
■ Press Escape.
To manually display a code hint:
1. Click in a code location where code hints can appear, such as in the following locations:
■ After the dot (.) following a statement or command, where a property or method must
be entered
■ Between parentheses [()] in a method name
NOTE
If a code hint doesn’t appear, make sure you didn’t disable code hints in the
ActionScript preferences (Edit > Preferences (Windows) or Flash > Preferences
(Macintosh) and then click ActionScript in the Category list). To display code hints
for a variable or object you created, make sure that you named your variable or object
correctly (see “About using suffixes to trigger code hints” on page 48) or that you
used strict typing for your variable or object (see “About typing objects to trigger
code hints” on page 48).
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