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_global
Availability
Flash Player 6.
Usage
_global.
identifier
Parameters
None.
Returns
A reference to the global object that holds the core ActionScript classes, such as String, Object, Math, and Array.
Description
Identifier; creates global variables, objects, or classes. For example, you could create a library that is exposed as a global ActionScript object, much like the Math or Date object. Unlike Timeline-declared or locally-declared variables and functions, global variables and functions are visible to every Timeline and scope in the Flash movie, provided they are not obscured by identifiers with the same names in inner scopes.
Example
The following example creates a top-level function factorial
that is available to every Timeline and scope in a Flash movie:
_global.factorial = function (n) { if (n <= 1) { return 1; } else { return n * factorial(n-1); } }
See also
var, set variable
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