December 2002
Intermediate to advanced
1088 pages
192h 4m
English
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1024 | Index
Capabilities object, properties (continued)
os, 485
pixelAspectRatio, 486
screenColor, 487
screenDPI, 487
screenResolutionX, 488
screenResolutionY, 489
serverString, 489
version, 490
capabilities property (System object), 817
capitalizing variables, 29
Caps Lock key and isToggled( ), 562
CAPSLOCK property (Key object), 555
carriage returns in strings, 86
case keyword, used in switch statement, 162
case sensitivity in ActionScript, 95, 101, 398,
990
case-conversion functions, 101
categorizing data, 64
ceil( ) method (Math object), 604
character encoding, 84, 971
character indexes and string functions, 94
character mappings, 972–975
charAt( ) method (String class), 95, 806
charCodeAt( ) method (String class), 104,
807
childNodes property (XML class), 922
circle, moving movie clips in, 605
classes
built-in, 313, 435
creating, 282
creating instances of, 283
customizing object properties, 283–285
methods, creating, 286–287
object-oriented programming
and, 281–300
superclasses and subclasses, 292
(see also object-oriented programming
(OOP))
clear( ) method (MovieClip class), 643
clearInterval( ) global function, 492
clip stack, 344
clips (see movie clips)
clock (example), 368–372
cloneNode( ) method (XML class), 923
close( ) method
(LocalConnection class), 594
(XMLSocket class), 956
code
asynchronous (event-based), ...
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