Sample entry for most ActionScript elements

The following sample entry explains the conventions used for all ActionScript elements.

Entry title

Entries are listed alphabetically within a chapter. The alphabetization ignores capitalization, leading underscores, and so on.

Availability

Unless otherwise noted, the Availability section tells which versions of Flash Lite support the element.

Usage

This section provides correct syntax for using the ActionScript element in your code. The required portion of the syntax is in code font. Both the code that you provide and data type information are in italicized code font. Data types can be distinguished from code that you provide by the colon (:) that always precedes data type information. Brackets ([]) indicate optional parameters.

Operands

This section describes any parameters listed in the syntax.

Description

This section identifies the type of element (for example, operator, function, and so on), what values if any that the element returns, and then describes how to use the element.

Example

This section provides a code sample demonstrating how to use the element.