May 2001
Intermediate to advanced
720 pages
23h 24m
English
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Global Properties
Global properties, like global functions, may be accessed from any script in a movie. They store information that is generally useful, from any point in our code. Many of them affect the entire Flash Player, not just a particular movie clip or movie.
Table 20.2 lists the global properties available in Flash 5.
Table 20-2. ActionScript Global Properties
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Property Name |
Description |
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The highlight state of buttons activated via the keyboard |
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The rendering quality of the Player* |
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A constant representing the Infinity value of the number type |
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A constant representing the -Infinity value of the number type |
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A document level in the Player |
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Not-A-Number; the value of the number type representing invalid numeric data |
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The rendering quality of the Player |
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A reference to the main movie timeline of the current level |
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Number of seconds of a streaming sound to preload |
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The version of the Flash Player |
*Deprecated in Flash 5.
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