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Description
Method; sets the active window to be the specified document. This method is also supported
by Dreamweaver and Fireworks. If the document has multiple views (created by Edit In New
Window), the first view is selected.
Example
The following example shows two ways to save a specified document.
fl.setActiveWindow(fl.documents[0]);
var theIndex = fl.findDocumentIndex("myFile.fla");
fl.setActiveWindow(fl.documents[theIndex]);
fl.showIdleMessage()
Availability
Flash 8.
Usage
fl.showIdleMessage( show )
Parameters
show A Boolean value specifying whether to enable or disable the warning about a script
running too long.
Returns
Nothing.
Description
Method; lets you disable the warning about a script running too long (pass false for show).
You might want to do this when processing batch operations that take a long time to
complete. To re-enable the alert, issue the command again, this time passing
true for show.
Example
The following example illustrates how to disable and re-enable the warning about a script
running too long.
fl.showIdleMessage(false);
var result = timeConsumingFunction();
fl.showIdleMessage(true);