FLASH® LITE™ 2.x - Adobe Help and Support

Example
The following example identifies the current value of the variable hairColor in the movie
clip person_mc:
person_mc.hairColor
The Flash 4 authoring environment did not support dot syntax, but Flash MX 2004 files
published for Flash Player 4 can use the dot operator. The preceding example is equivalent to
the following (deprecated) Flash 4 syntax:
/person_mc:hairColor
The following example creates a new movie clip within the _root scope. Then a text field is
created inside the movie clip called container_mc. The text field's autoSize property is set
to true and then populated with the current date.
this.createEmptyMovieClip("container_mc", this.getNextHighestDepth());
this.container_mc.createTextField("date_txt", this.getNextHighestDepth(),
0, 0, 100, 22);
this.container_mc.date_txt.autoSize = true;
this.container_mc.date_txt.text = new Date();
The dot (.) operator is used when targeting instances within the SWF file and when you need
to set properties and values for those instances.
== equality operator
expression1 == expression2
Tests two expressions for equality. The result is true if the expressions are equal.
The definition of equal depends on the data type of the parameter:
■ Numbers and Boolean values are compared by value and are considered equal if they have
the same value.
■ String expressions are equal if they have the same number of characters and the characters
are identical.
■ Variables representing objects, arrays, and functions are compared by reference. Two such
variables are equal if they refer to the same object, array, or function. Two separate arrays
are never considered equal, even if they have the same number of elements.
When comparing by value, if expression1 and expression2 are different data types,
ActionScript will attempt to convert the data type of expression2 to match that of
expression1.
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