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ActionScript: The Definitive Guide
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ActionScript: The Definitive Guide

by Colin Moock
May 2001
Intermediate to advanced
720 pages
23h 24m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

_quality Global Property — the rendering quality of the Player

Availability

Flash 5

Synopsis

_quality

Access

Read/write

Description

The _quality property stores a string that dictates the rendering quality of the Flash Player as follows:

“LOW”

Low quality. Neither bitmaps nor vectors are antialiased (smoothed).

“MEDIUM”

Medium quality. Vectors are moderately antialiased.

“HIGH”

High quality. Vectors are highly antialiased. Bitmaps are antialiased when no animation is occurring.

“BEST”

Best quality. Both bitmaps and vectors are always antialiased.

Lower rendering quality means that fewer calculations are required to draw a frame of the movie, resulting in faster performance. The typical setting of _quality for most movies is "HIGH".

Example

Here we set the rendering quality of a movie to the best it can be (which also causes the slowest playback):

_quality = "BEST";

See Also

_highQuality, toggleHighQuality( )
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