In order to indicate the various syntactic components of ActionScript, this book uses the following conventions:
Constant
width
for code samples, clip instance names, frame labels, property names, and variable names.Italic
for function names, method names, class names, layer names, filenames, and file suffixes such as.swf
.Constant
width
bold
for code that you must type when following a step-by-step procedure.Constant
width
italic
for code that you must replace with an appropriate value (e.g.,your
name
here
) or for variable and property names referenced in a code comment.Method and function names are followed by parentheses.
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