The System and TextField packages

The System package contains the capabilities, IME, and security classes. These classes deal with client settings that might affect your application in Flash Player. For more information on each class, see the cross references provided in the following table.

Class

Description

capabilities

The capabilities class determines the abilities of the system and Flash Player that's hosting the SWF file. This lets you customize content for different formats. See capabilities (System.capabilities).

IME

The IME class lets you directly manipulate the operating system's input method editor (IME) that's within the Flash Player application running on a client computer. See IME (System.IME).

security

The security class contains methods that specify how SWF files in different domains can communicate with each other. See security (System.security).

The TextField package contains the StyleSheet class that you can use to apply CSS styles to text.

Class

Description

StyleSheet

The StyleSheet class lets you create a style sheet object that contains text formatting rules such as font size, color, and other formatting styles. See StyleSheet (TextField.StyleSheet).