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344 ActionScript classes
Button
Object
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public class Button
extends Object
All button symbols in a SWF file are instances of the Button object. You can give a button an
instance name in the Property inspector, and use the methods and properties of the Button
class to manipulate buttons with ActionScript. Button instance names are displayed in the
Movie Explorer and in the Insert Target Path dialog box in the Actions panel.
The Button class inherits from the Object class.
Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Player 6
See also
Object
Property summary
Modifiers Property Description
_alpha:Number The alpha transparency value of the button specified
by my_btn.
blendMode:Object The blend mode for the button.
cacheAsBitmap:Boolea
n
If set to true, Flash Player caches an internal bitmap
representation of the button.
enabled:Boolean A Boolean value that specifies whether a button is
enabled.
filters:Array An indexed array containing each filter object
currently associated with the button.
_focusrect:Boolean A Boolean value that specifies whether a button has a
yellow rectangle around it when it has keyboard focus.
_height:Number The height of the button, in pixels.
_highquality:Number Deprecated since Flash Player 7. This property was
deprecated in favor of Button._quality.
Specifies the level of anti-aliasing applied to the
current SWF file.
menu:ContextMenu Associates the ContextMenu object contextMenu
with the button object my_button.