October 2005
Intermediate to advanced
1376 pages
27h 40m
English
book
ActionScript 2.0 Language Reference for Macromedia® Flash® 8
by Francis Cheng, Jen deHaan, Robert L. Dixon, Shimul Rahim
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Object
public class ObjectThe Object class is at the root of the ActionScript class hierarchy. This class contains a small subset of the features provided by the JavaScript Object class.
Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Player 5 - (became a native object in Flash Player 6, which improved performance significantly).
Property summary
| Modifiers | Property | Description |
|---|---|---|
| constructor:Object | Reference to the constructor function for a given object instance. | |
| __proto__:Object | Refers to the prototype property of the class (ActionScript 2.0) or constructor function (ActionScript 1.0) used to create the object. | |
| static | prototype:Object | A reference to the superclass of a class or function object. |
| __resolve:Object | A reference to a user-defined function that ... |
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