Perl Graphics Programming

Actions, Functions, and Properties

The actions and properties described in this section can be thought of as methods and properties of the top-level movie. ActionScript also provides built-in functions for evaluating various expressions. These are described in the following tables:

Table D-8

Table D-9

Table D-10

Table D-8. ActionScript actions

Action name	Parameters	Description
call	frame	Switch the context from this script to the script attached to the specified frame.
delete	object	Delete (undefine) the specified object or variable.
duplicateMovieClip	movie_clip, new_name, depth	Create a new instance of the given MovieClip, place it at depth, and label it with new_name.
fscommand	command, argument_string	Pass a command and list of arguments to the system that is running the SWF user agent.
function	name { code_block }	Define a function.
getURL	url , window	Load a MovieClip from an external URL. The optional window parameter can be one of the following values: _self The current frame in the current window. _blank A new window. _parent The parent of the current frame. _top The top-level window.
gotoAndPlay	frame	Go to a particular frame and play the movie.
gotoAndStop	frame	Go to a particular frame and stop the movie.
loadMovie	url, target	Load an external movie from the specified URL. The target can be a path to an existing object in the movie (which will be replaced) or the depth at which the movie clip should be placed.
loadVariables	url, level	Load variable data from a text file or CGI script. The data will be read into ...