ActionScript: The Definitive Guide

Name

printNum( ) Global Function — print the frames of a document level using vectors

Availability

Flash 5

Synopsis

printNum(level, boundingBox)

Arguments

level

A non-negative integer or an expression that yields a non-negative integer indicating the document level to print.

boundingBox

A string indicating how the printed frames of target should be cropped when printed, as described earlier under print( ).

Description

The printNum( ) function is nearly identical to print( ) except that it requires the target level of the print operation to be specified as a number rather than as a string. This means that printNum( ) can print only document levels, not movie clips. It is normally used when we wish to dynamically assign the level of a movie to print, as in:

var x = 3;
printNum(x, "bmax");

which could also be achieved using string concatenation with the regular print( ) function:

print("_level" + x, "bmax");

Usage

See Usage notes under the print( ) function.

See Also

print( ), printAsBitmap( ), printAsBitmapNum( )