MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004 - ACTIONSCRIPT - Page 814

814 Index
security 188–191
and policy files 190
and porting scripts to Flash Player 7 17, 19, 20
data access across domains 189, 190
semicolon 31
sending information
in XML format 178
to remote files 177
URL-encoded format 178
via TCP/IP 178
server-side scripts
languages 177
XML format 182
servers, opening continuous connection 184
setRGB method 100
slash syntax 30
not supported in ActionScript 2.0 30
socket connections
about 184
sample script 185
sounds
attaching to Timeline 102
balance control 104
controlling 101
See also external media
special characters 35
Stage, attaching symbols to movie clips 127
statements
grouping 31
terminating 31
trace statements 79
static members. See class members
stepping through lines of code 75
stopping movie clips 92
strict data typing 38
and global variables 38
and local variables 42
not supported in ActionScript 1 38
strict equality operators 48
string operators 46
strings 34
style sheets. See cascading style sheets
subclasses
and class members 167
creating 162
creating for movie clips 133
suffixes 62
SWD file, defined 69
SWF files
controlling in Flash Player 187
creating sound controls 101
embedding in text fields 152
jumping to frame or scene 92
loading and unloading 123
loading into movie clips 194
maintaining original size 186
passing information between 178
placing on Web page 93
preloading 199
scaling to Flash Player 186
See also movie clips
syntax
case sensitivity 29–30
checking 66
curly braces 31
dot 30
highlighting 61
parentheses 32
rules 29
semicolon 31
slash 30
system event, defined 83
system requirements 9
T
Tab key, and Test Movie 68
target paths
defined 29
entering 50
specifying 50
TCP/IP connection
sending information 178
with XMLSocket object 185
terminating statements 31
terminology 26
Test Movie
and keyboard controls 68
and Unicode 68
testing. See debugging
text
assigning to text field at runtime 136
determining required size of TextField object 139
encoding 26
getting metric information 139
scrolling 153
using <img> tag to flow around images 149
See also text fields