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_quality
Availability
Flash Player 5.
Usage
_quality:String
Description
Property (global); sets or retrieves the rendering quality used for a movie clip. Device fonts are
always aliased and therefore are unaffected by the
_quality property.
The
_quality property can be set to the following values:
• "LOW" Low rendering quality. Graphics are not anti-aliased, and bitmaps are not smoothed.
• "MEDIUM" Medium rendering quality. Graphics are anti-aliased using a 2 x 2 pixel grid, but
bitmaps are not smoothed. Suitable for movie clips that do not contain text.
• "HIGH" High rendering quality. Graphics are anti-aliased using a 4 x 4 pixel grid, and bitmaps
are smoothed if the movie clip is static. This is the default rendering quality setting used
by Flash.
• "BEST" Very high rendering quality. Graphics are anti-aliased using a 4 x 4 pixel grid and
bitmaps are always smoothed.
Example
The following example sets the rendering quality to LOW:
_quality = "LOW";
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