TechNote (Archived)

Scripting Methods Supported in the Flash 4 Players

With the new Flash 4 features, there are some new Scripting Methods supported by the Flash 4 players. All of the methods supported in the Flash 3 players are still supported in the Flash 4 players. For more information on those methods, see Using JavaScript with Flash Player (TechNote 4160) or the in depth article Scripting with Flash.

The following is a list of new methods supported only by the Flash 4 players:

	SetVariable(String name, String value)
	StringGetVariable(String name)
	TSetProperty(String target, int property, String value)
	StringTGetProperty(String target, int property)
	TCallFrame(String target, int frameNum)
	TCallLabel(String target, String label)

Theproperty parameter for the TGetProperty andTSetProperty calls must be specified in one of the following ways:

	In JavaScript, it will be necessary to use the corresponding integer value representing that property; for example: TGetProperty("/ball", 0)
	In Java, it's possible to use the constants in the ShockwaveFlash class instead of using the integer value; for example, ShockwaveFlash.POS_X

Use the following table to determine the integer that should be used for the corresponding property in your scripting environment.

Property	Integer	Constant	Getable	Set-able
X Position	0	X_POS	x	x
Y Position	1	Y_POs	x	x
X Scale	2	X_SCALE	x	x
Y Scale	3	Y_SCALE	x	x
Current Frame	4	CURRENT_FRAME	x
Total Frames	5	TOTAL_FRAMES	x
Alpha	6	ALPHA	x	x
Visibility	7	VISIBLE	x	x
Width	8	WIDTH	x
Height	9	HEIGHT	x
Rotation	10	ROTATE	x	x
Target path	11	TARGET	x
Frames Loaded	12	FRAMES_LOADED	x
Instance name	13	NAME	x	x
Drop Target path	14	DROP_TARGET	x
URL	15	URL	x
Global Properties
High Quality	16	HIGH_QUALITY	x	x
Focus Rectangle	17	FOCUS_RECT	x	x
Sound Buffer Time	18	SOUND_BUF_TIME	x	x

Note:Not all properties can be set.

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