screen.parentScreen

Availability

Flash MX 2004.

Usage

screen.parentScreen

Description

Read-only property; an object that represents the parent screen. If parentScreen is null, the screen is a top-level screen.

Example

The following example stores the values for the childScreens and parentScreen properties in variables and then shows those values and their parent/child relationship in the Output panel:

if(fl.getDocumentDOM().allowScreens) {
    var myCurrent = fl.getDocumentDOM().screenOutline.rootScreen.childScreens[1].name;
    var myParent = fl.getDocumentDOM().screenOutline.rootScreen.childScreens[1].parentScreen.name;
    fl.trace(" The parent screen to "+myCurrent+" is "+myParent+". ");
}