ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition

#initclip Pragma

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Usage

–Infinity is normally used in place of its more verbose equivalent Number.NEGATIVE_

INFINITY

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See Also

Infinity, isFinite( ), NaN, Number.MAX_VALUE, Number.NEGATIVE_INFINITY; “Special Values of

the Number Datatype,” in Chapter 4

#initclip Pragma

starts a movie clip initialization code block

Flash 6

#initclip order

Arguments

order A nonnegative integer specifying the execution order of this #initclip block

relative to all other

#initclip blocks in the movie. Those with lower order

numbers are executed before those with higher ones. Multiple #initclip

blocks can share a single order position.

Description

The #initclip pragma starts a special block of code that allows you to perform initializa-

tion for a movie clip symbol before any instances of it are created. As explained in

Chapter 14,

#initclip typically is used to create so-called components, which are

subclasses of the MovieClip class that have been made self-contained for easy use by

nonprogrammers. Therefore, the

#initclip code block typically is used to register a movie

clip symbol with an ActionScript class (i.e., to create a subclass of the MovieClip class, as

shown in Chapter 14). An

#initclip block can appear only on frame 1 of a movie clip

symbol (it causes a compile-time error ...