Flash 4 ActionScript Primer

Macromedia Flash Lite 1.x ActionScript from Adobe is based on the version of ActionScript that was first available in Macromedia Flash Player 4 from Adobe. Consequently, several programming features available in later versions of Flash Player (for desktop systems) are not available to Flash Lite 1.x applications.

If you're unfamiliar with Flash 4 ActionScript syntax and features or if you've forgotten some of the details from previous Flash development work, this chapter provides a primer on using Flash 4 ActionScript in your Flash Lite applications.

This chapter contains the following topics:

Getting and setting movie clip properties

Controlling other timelines

Using variables

Emulating arrays

Working with text and strings

Using the call() function to create functions

Using the eval() function