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call()

Availability

Flash Player 4. This action was deprecated in Flash 5 in favor of the function statement.

Usage

call(frame)

Parameters

frame

The label or number of a frame in the Timeline.

Returns

Nothing.

Description

Action; executes the script in the called frame without moving the playhead to that frame. Local

variables do not exist after the script executes.

• If variables are not declared inside a block ({}) but the action list was executed with a call()

action, the variables are local and expire at the end of the current list.

• If variables are not declared inside a block and the current action list was not executed with the

call() action, the variables are interpreted as Timeline variables.