ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition

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Preface

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Typographical Conventions

In order to indicate the various syntactic components of ActionScript, this book uses

the following conventions:

Menu options

Menu options are shown using the

➝ character, such as File ➝ Open.

Constant width

Indicates code samples, clip instance names, frame labels, property names, and

variable names. Variable names often end with the suffixes shown in Table 2-1

(such as

_mc for variables that refer to movie clip instances). Although using

these suffixes is considered the best practice, we sometimes avoided them when

we found they made the surrounding text substantially more difficult to read.

For brevity, therefore, the preferred suffixes have sometimes been omitted.

Italic

Indicates function names, method names, class names, layer names, URLs, file-

names, and file suffixes such as .swf. In addition to being italicized, method and

function names are also followed by parentheses, such as duplicateMovieClip( ).

Constant width bold

Indicates text that you must enter verbatim when following a step-by-step proce-

dure.

Constant width bold is also used within code examples for emphasis, such

as to highlight an important line of code in a larger example.

Constant width italic

Indicates code that you must replace with an appropriate value (e.g., your name

here ...