User Guide

MovieClip.onData 597

Example

The following example lets you right-click or Control-click a movie clip on the Stage and select

“Info...” from the context menu to view information about that instance. Add several movie clips

with instance names, and then add the following ActionScript to your AS or FLA file:

var menu_cm:ContextMenu = new ContextMenu();

menu_cm.customItems.push(new ContextMenuItem("Info...", getMCInfo));

function getMCInfo(target_mc:MovieClip, obj:Object) {

trace("You clicked on the movie clip '"+target_mc._name+"'.");

trace("\t width:"+target_mc._width+", height:"+target_mc._height);

trace("");

}

for (var i in this) {

if (typeof (this[i]) == 'movieclip') {

this[i].menu = menu_cm;

}

MovieClip.nextFrame()

Availability

Flash Player 5.

Usage

my_mc.nextFrame() : Void

Parameters

None.

Returns

Nothing.

Description

Method; sends the playhead to the next frame and stops it.

You can extend the methods and event handlers of the MovieClip class by creating a subclass.