ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition

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Note, however, that updateAfterEvent() is not an arbitrary screen-refreshing tool; outside of

setInterval() and the handlers in the previous list, it has no effect. In Flash 6, even the

Mouse and Key objects’ event handlers do not support updateAfterEvent(); however, they

are expected to support it in future versions of the Player.

Example

The following script causes pointer_mc to follow the mouse pointer. It uses

updateAfterEvent() to refresh the screen every time the pointer moves (which may be more

often than the frame rate):

pointer_mc.onMouseMove = function () {

this._x = _root._xmouse;

this._y = _root._ymouse;

updateAfterEvent();

}

See Also

“Refreshing the Screen with updateAfterEvent(),” in Chapter 10

$version “Global” Property

the version of the Flash Player

Flash 4 Build 11; deprecated in Flash 5

read-only

_root.$version

Description

The $version property contains the same string as the return value of the global getVersion(

) function and the

System.capabilities.version property (the operating system, followed

by Player version information). See the

capabilities.version entry (under “C” in this

Language Reference) for complete details on the format of the version information and

version detection from within a browser before the Flash Player ...