User Guide

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Example 3: The car variable in the movie clip instance mc2 nested in the movie clip instance
mc1 that resides on the main Timeline:
/mc1/mc2/:car
Example 4: The car variable in the movie clip instance mc2 that resides on the current
Timeline:
mc2/:car
_alpha
Availability
Flash Lite 1.0.
Usage
my_mc:_alpha
Property; the alpha transparency value of the movie clip specified by the my_mc variable. Valid
values are 0 (fully transparent) to 100 (fully opaque), which is the default value. Objects in a
movie clip with
_alpha set to 0 are active, even though they are invisible. For example, you
can click a button in a movie clip whose
_alpha property is set to 0.
Example
The following code for a button event handler sets the _alpha property of the my_mc movie
clip to 30% when the user clicks the button:
on(release) {
tellTarget("my_mc") {
_alpha = 30;
}
}
_currentframe
Availability
Flash Lite 1.0.
Usage
my_mc:_currentframe
Description
Property (read-only); returns the number of the frame in which the playhead is located in the
timeline that the
my_mc variable specifies.