User Guide

90 ActionScript language elements

Parameters

target:Object - The instance name of a movie clip to print. By default, all of the frames in

the target instance can be printed. If you want to print specific frames in the movie clip, assign

#p frame label to those frames.

boundingBox:String - A modifier that sets the print area of the movie clip. Enclose this

parameter in quotation marks (" or '), and specify one of the following values:

■ bmovie Designates the bounding box of a specific frame in a movie clip as the print area

for all printable frames in the movie clip. Assign a

#b frame label to the frame whose

bounding box you want to use as the print area.

■ bmax Designates a composite of all the bounding boxes of all the printable frames as the

print area. Specify

bmax if the printable frames in your movie clip vary in size.

■ bframe Indicates that the bounding box of each printable frame should be used as the

print area for that frame, which changes the print area for each frame and scales the

objects to fit the print area. Use

bframe if you have objects of different sizes in each frame

and want each object to fill the printed page.

Example

The following example prints all of the printable frames in

holder_mc with a print area

defined by the bounding box of each frame:

this.createEmptyMovieClip("holder_mc", 999);

holder_mc.loadMovie("http://www.helpexamples.com/flash/images/image1.jpg");

this.myBtn_btn.onRelease = function() {

print(this._parent.holder_mc, "bframe");

};

In the previous ActionScript, you could replace bframe with bmovie so that the print area is

defined by the bounding box of a frame with the

#b frame label attached.