User Guide

6Flash Lite 2.x Overview
■ Ability to control backlight duration and set custom focus rectangle color
■ Support for ActionScript 2.0, which lets you use advanced programming techniques
including classes, interfaces, and strict data typing
■ Synchronized device sound
■ XML processing support
The following features in Flash Player 7 are not available in Flash Lite 2.0:
■ Several ActionScript classes available in Flash Player 7 are unsupported or partially
supported in Flash Lite 2.0. For more information about available ActionScript, see
Introduction to Flash Lite ActionScript 2.x.
■ Socket communication using the XMLSocket class
■ Support for communication with Macromedia Flash Media Server
■ Remote shared objects (local shared objects are partially supported)
■ Native support for Flash Video (FLV) playback
■ Support for Flash Application Protocol (the binary data communication protocol used by
Flash Remoting)
■ Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) formatting with text fields
■ Masking with device fonts
■ Bitmap smoothing while rendering at high-quality
Flash Lite 2.0 new features
The previous versions of Flash Lite (Flash Lite 1.0 and Flash Lite 1.1) are based on Flash
Player 4. Flash Lite 2.0 is based on Flash Player 7 and supports most of the features available
in that version of Flash Player—including XML processing and ActionScript 2.0. Flash Lite
2.0 also provides several features not available in Flash Player 7 that are designed for mobile
applications. The rest of this section describes the new features in Flash Lite 2.0.
Flash Lite 2.0 ActionScript
Flash Lite 2.0 ActionScript is the scripting language used in Flash Lite 2.0 applications. It
shares some, but not all, of the ActionScript used in Flash Player 7. Flash Lite 2.0 also
includes several ActionScript additions and extensions that let you, for example, get
information about the device, make phone calls, or control the backlight duration.