ActionScript Dictionary Overview > Sample entry for most ActionScript elements

 

Sample entry for most ActionScript elements

The following sample dictionary entry explains the conventions used for all ActionScript elements that are not objects or components.

 
Entry title

All entries are listed alphabetically. The alphabetization ignores capitalization, leading underscores, and so on.

Availability

This section tells which versions of the Flash Player support the element. This is not the same as the version of Flash used to author the content. For example, if you use the Flash MX authoring tool to create content for Flash Player 5, you can only use ActionScript elements that are available to Flash Player 5.

Usage

This section provides correct syntax for using the ActionScript element in your code. The required portion of the syntax is in code font, and the user provided code is in italicized code font. Brackets ([])indicate optional parameters.

Parameters

This section describes any parameters listed in the syntax.

Returns

This section identifies what, if any, values the element returns.

Description

This section identifies the type of element (for example, as an operator, method, function, and so on) and then describes how to use the element.

Example

This section provides a code sample demonstrating how to use the element.

See also

This section lists related ActionScript dictionary entries.