User Guide

Creating the ActionScript class file 151
About the Inspectable tag
You use the Inspectable tag to specify the user-editable (inspectable) parameters that appear in
the Component inspector and Property inspector. This lets you maintain the inspectable
properties and the underlying ActionScript code in the same place. To see the component
properties, drag an instance of the component onto the Stage and select the Parameters tab of
the Component inspector.
Collection parameters are also inspectable. For more information, see “About the Collection
tag” on page 157.
The following figure shows the Parameters tab of the Component inspector for the
DateChooser component:
Alternatively, you can view a subset of the component properties on the Property inspector
Parameters tab.
When determining which parameters to reveal in the authoring environment, Flash uses the
Inspectable tag. The syntax for this tag is as follows:
[Inspectable(value_type=value[,attribute=value,...])]
property_declaration name:type;
The following example defines the enabled parameter as inspectable:
[Inspectable(defaultValue=true, verbose=1, category="Other")]
var enabled:Boolean;