Teach Yourself Visually™ Flash® CS4 Professional

Introducing

ActionScript

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Variables

A variable is a place for your script to store a piece

of information. In Flash, you use the

var keyword to

declare a variable. It is also a best practice to add

the variable

type to your declaration. To declare any

variable, you should use the syntax:

var <variable_name>:<variable_type> =

value;

For example, to have Flash remember you have 100

tomatoes, you could write the statement:

var numberOfTomatoes:Number = 100;

Frame Actions

In Flash, you can create actions that are triggered

when the play head reaches a particular keyframe

of your movie. Most of the time, frame actions are

used to tell movie clips to stop or ...