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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.
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
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, 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.
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