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Examples

This statement shows that MyObject is a motion object:

put MyObject.ilk

-- #motion

The following statement tests whether MyObject is a motion object. The return value of 1 shows

that it is.

put MyObject.ilk(#motion)

-- 1

See also

tweenMode

image

Syntax

whichMember.image

(the stage).image

window(windowName).image

Description

This property refers to the image object of a bitmap or text cast member, of the Stage, or of a window.

You can get or set a cast member’s image, but you can only get the image of the Stage or a window.

Setting a cast member’s image property immediately changes the contents of the member.

However, when you get the image of a member or window, Director creates a reference to the

image of the specified member or window. If you make changes to the image, the contents of the

cast member or window change immediately.

If you plan to make a lot of changes to an item’s image property, it is faster to copy the item’s

image property into a new image object using the

duplicate() function, apply your changes to

the new image object, and then set the original item’s image to the new image object. For non-

bitmap members, it is always faster to use the

duplicate() function.

Examples

This statement puts the image of cast member originalFlower into cast member newFlower:

member("newFlower").image = member("originalFlower").image

These statements place a reference to the image of the stage into the variable myImage and then

put that image into cast member flower:

myImage=(the stage).image

member("flower").image = myImage