MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004 - ACTIONSCRIPT, Reference Manual

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If you are loading external data, you should create policy files even if you don’t plan to port any of
your files to Flash Player 7. If you are using RSLs, you should create policy files if either the
calling or called file is published for Flash Player 7.
For more information, see “About allowing cross-domain data loading” on page 190 .
ActionScript editor changes
The ActionScript editor has been updated in a number of ways to make it more robust and easier
to use. These changes are summarized in this section.
Word wrapping You can now use the Options pop-up menu in the Script pane, Debugger
panel, and Output panel to enable or disable word wrapping. You can also toggle word wrapping
using the pop-up menu in the Actions panel. The keyboard shortcut is Shift+W
(Windows) or Shift+W (Macintosh).
Viewing context-sensitive help When your pointer is positioned over an ActionScript
language element in the Actions toolbox or in the Script pane, you can use the View Help item in
the context menu to display a help page about that element.
Importing scripts When you select Import Script from the pop-up menu in the Actions panel,
the imported script is copied into the script at the insertion point in your code file. In previous
versions of Flash, importing a script overwrote the contents of the existing script.
Single-click breakpoints To add a debugging breakpoint before a line of code in the Debugger
panel or the Script pane of the Actions panel, you can click in the left margin. In previous
versions of Flash, clicking in the left margin selected a line of code. The new way to select a line of
code is to Control-click (Windows) or Command-click (Macintosh).
Normal and expert modes no longer in Actions panel
In previous versions of Flash, you could
work in the Actions panel either in normal mode, in which you filled in options and parameters
to create code, or in expert mode, in which you added commands directly into the Script pane. In
Flash MX 2004 and Flash MX Professional 2004, you can work in the Actions panel only by
adding commands directly to the Script pane. You can still drag commands from the Actions
toolbox into the Script pane or use the Add (+) button
above the Script pane to add commands to
a script.
Pinning multiple scripts
You can pin multiple scripts within a FLA file along the bottom of the
Script pane in the Actions panel. In previous versions of Flash, you could pin only one script at
a time.
Script navigator
The left side of the Actions panel now contains two panes: the Actions toolbox
and a new Script navigator. The Script navigator is a visual representation of the structure of your
FLA file; you can navigate through your FLA file here to locate ActionScript code.
Integrated Script window for editing external files (Flash Professional only)
You can use the
ActionScript editor in a Script window (separate from the Actions panel) to write and edit
external script files. Syntax coloring, code hinting, and other preferences are supported in the
Script window, and the Actions toolbox is also available. To display the Script window, use
File > New and then select the type of external file you want to edit. You can have multiple
external files open at the same time; filenames are displayed on tabs across the top of the Script
window. (The tabs appear only in Windows.)