484 Chapter 12: ActionScript Dictionary
Drawing method summary for the MovieClip class
Property summary for the MovieClip class
Method Description
MovieClip.beginFill() Begins drawing a fill on the Stage.
MovieClip.beginGradientFill() Begins drawing a gradient fill on the Stage.
MovieClip.clear() Removes all the drawing commands associated with a movie
clip instance.
MovieClip.curveTo() Draws a curve using the latest line style.
MovieClip.endFill() Ends the fill specified by beginFill() or beginGradientFill().
MovieClip.lineStyle() Defines the stroke of lines created with the lineTo() and
curveTo() methods.
MovieClip.lineTo() Draws a line using the current line style.
MovieClip.moveTo() Moves the current drawing position to specified coordinates.
Property Description
MovieClip._alpha The transparency value of a movie clip instance.
MovieClip._currentframe The frame number in which the playhead is currently located.
MovieClip._droptarget The absolute path in slash syntax notation of the movie clip
instance on which a draggable movie clip was dropped.
MovieClip.enabled Indicates whether a button movie clip is enabled.
MovieClip.focusEnabled Enables a movie clip to receive focus.
MovieClip._focusrect Indicates whether a focused movie clip has a yellow rectangle
around it.
MovieClip._framesloaded The number of frames that have been loaded from a streaming
SWF file.
MovieClip._height The height of a movie clip instance, in pixels.
MovieClip.hitArea Designates another movie clip to serve as the hit area for a
button movie clip.
MovieClip._highquality Sets the rendering quality of a SWF file.
MovieClip.menu Associates a ContextMenu object with a movie clip.
MovieClip._name The instance name of a movie clip instance.
MovieClip._parent A reference to the movie clip that encloses the movie clip.
MovieClip._rotation The degree of rotation of a movie clip instance.
MovieClip._soundbuftime The number of seconds before a sound starts to stream.
MovieClip.tabChildren Indicates whether the children of a movie clip are included in
automatic tab ordering.