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718 Chapter 6: Components Dictionary

If mySlide is the root slide in a presentation, this property returns false, because the

presentation slide’s parent is the main Timeline (_level0), not a slide. This property also returns

false if a form is the parent of mySlide.

Example

The following code determines whether the parent object of the slide mySlide is itself a slide. If

mySlide.parentIsSlide is true, the number of mySlide’s sibling slides is displayed in the

Output panel. If the parent object is not a slide, Flash assumes that

mySlide is the root (master)

slide in the presentation and therefore has no sibling slides.

if (mySlide.parentIsSlide) {

trace("I have " + mySlide._parent.numChildSlides+" sibling slides");

} else {

trace("I am the root slide and have no siblings");

}