ACTIONSCRIPT 3 Developer’s Guide en

ACTIONSCRIPT 3.0 DEVELOPER’S GUIDE
Display programming
import flash.display.*;
import flash.text.TextField;
var myText:TextField = new TextField();
myText.text = "Buenos dias.";
this.addChild(myText);
When you add any visual element to the Stage, that element becomes a child of the Stage object. The first SWF file
loaded in an application (for example, the one that you embed in an HTML page) is automatically added as a child of
the Stage. It can be an object of any type that extends the Sprite class.
Any display objects that you create without using ActionScript—for example, by adding an MXML tag in a Flex MXML
file or by placing an item on the Stage in Flash Professional—are added to the display list. Although you do not add
these display objects through ActionScript, you can access them through ActionScript. For example, the following
code adjusts the width of an object named button1 that was added in the authoring tool (not through ActionScript):
button1.width = 200;
Working with display object containers
Flash Player 9 and later, Adobe AIR 1.0 and later
If a DisplayObjectContainer object is deleted from the display list, or if it is moved or transformed in some other way,
each display object in the DisplayObjectContainer is also deleted, moved, or transformed.
A display object container is itself a type of display object—it can be added to another display object container. For
example, the following image shows a display object container, pictureScreen, that contains one outline shape and
four other display object containers (of type PictureFrame):
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