User Guide

68 Appendix A: Supported ActionScript
loadMovie() Action; plays additional movies without closing Flash
Lite. Normally, Flash Lite displays a single Flash
application (SWF file) and then closes. The
loadMovie()
action lets you display several SWF files at once or
switch between them without loading another HTML
document.
Fully supported
loadMovieNum() Action; loads a SWF file into a level in Flash Lite while
the originally loaded movie is playing.
Fully supported
loadVariables() Action; reads data from an external file, such as a text file
or text generated by a CGI script, Active Server Pages
(ASP), or Personal Home Page (PHP), and sets the
values for variables in a SWF file or movie clip.
Fully supported
loadVariablesNum() Action; reads data from an external file, such as a text file
or text generated by a CGI script, Active Server Pages
(ASP), or PHP, or Perl script, and sets the values for
variables in a Flash Lite level.
Fully supported
lt (string less than) Operator (comparison); compares expression1 to
expression2 and returns true if expression1 is less than
or equal to
expression2; otherwise, returns false. This
action is string specific.
The following examples illustrate
true and false results
for the
lt operator:
x =”Amy”;
y=”Fred”;
y lt x;
// false
x lt “Jane”;
// true
Fully supported
mbchr() String function; converts an ASCII code number to a
multibyte character.
Fully supported
mblength() String function; returns the length of the multibyte
character string.
Fully supported
mbord() String function; converts the specified character to a
multibyte number.
Fully supported
mbsubstring() String function; extracts a new multibyte character string
from a multibyte character string.
Fully supported
ne (string not-equal) Comparison operator; compares two expressions for
inequality and returns
true if expression1 is not equal to
expression2; otherwise, returns false. This action is
string specific.
The following examples illustrate
true and false results
for the
ne operator:
x =”Amy”;
y=”Fred”;
y ne“Amy”;
// true
x ne “Amy”;
// false
Fully supported
Action name Description Support