User Guide

Form class (Flash Professional only) 437
Returns
A Form object.
Description
Method; returns the child form of myForm whose index is childIndex.
Example
The following example displays in the Output panel the names of all the child Form objects
belonging to the root Form object named
application.
for (var i:Number = 0; i < _root.application.numChildForms; i++) {
var childForm:mx.screens.Form = _root.application.getChildForm(i);
trace(childForm._name);
}
See also
Form.numChildForms
Form.indexInParentForm
Availability
Flash Player 6 (6.0 79.0).
Edition
Flash MX Professional 2004.
Usage
myForm.indexInParentForm
Description
Property (read-only); contains the zero-based index of myForm in its parent’s list of child forms. If
the parent object of
myForm is a screen but not a form (for example, if it is a slide),
indexInParentForm is always 0.
Example
var myIndex:Number = myForm.indexInParent;
if (myForm == myForm._parent.getChildForm(myIndex)) {
trace("I'm where I should be");
}
See also
Form.getChildForm()