December 2002
Intermediate to advanced
1088 pages
192h 4m
English
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1034 | Index
levels, 54
lexical scope versus dynamic scope, 196
lexical structure of ActionScript, 392
<LI> tag (HTML), 993
Library, creating clip instances
manually, 332
line breaks
HTML support in text fields, 995
in ActionScript code, 392
in strings, 86
lineStyle( ) method (MovieClip class), 668
lineTo( ) method (MovieClip class), 670
Lingo
arrays in ActionScript and C versus, 249
communicating with, 524
lingo protocol (getURL( )), 538
linked clips, 330
listener events, 225–228
literals
array, 248
examples, 65
floating-point, 79
function, 191
adding methods to classes, 290
integer, 79
numeric, 78
object, 301
string, 84–87
versus variables, 65
LN10 property (Math object), 607
LN2 property (Math object), 607
load( ) method
(LoadVars class), 581
(XML class), 933
loaded property
(LoadVars class), 582
(XML class), 933
loadMovie( )
global function, 569
loading external SWF files into
Player, 338
load/unload movie clip events, 691
using data event handlers, 676
using with attachMovie( ), 340
method (MovieClip class), 671
loadMovieNum( ) global function, 572
loadSound( ) method (Sound class), 780
loadVariables( )
global function, 572
bug, 574
using data event handlers, 676
loadVariables( ) method (MovieClip
class), 671
loadVariablesNum( ) global function, 574,
575
LoadVars class, 575
event handlers
onData( ), 583
onLoad( ), 584
methods ...
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