Adobe Extending Flash Professional CS5 - Manual (Page 239)

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Last updated 5/2/2011
Chapter 17: flash object (fl)
Availability
Flash MX 2004.
Description
The flash object represents the Flash application. You can use
flash or fl to refer to this object. This documentation
uses fl in code samples throughout.
Method summary
The following methods can be used with the flash object:
Method Description
fl.addEventListener() Registers a function to be called when a specific event is received.
fl.browseForFileURL() Opens a File Open or File Save system dialog box and lets the user
specify a file to be opened or saved.
fl.browseForFolderURL() Displays a Browse for Folder dialog box and lets the user select a folder.
“ fl.clearPublishCache() ” on page 223 Clears the publish cache.
fl.clipCopyString() Copies the specified string to the Clipboard.
fl.closeAll() Closes all open documents, displaying the Save As dialog box for any
documents that were not previously saved.
fl.closeAllPlayerDocuments() Closes all the SWF files that were opened with Control > Test Movie.
fl.closeDocument() Closes the specified document.
fl.createDocument() Opens a new document and selects it.
“ fl.exportPublishProfileString() ” on page 230 Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) from which to export publish
settings.
fl.fileExists() Checks whether a file already exists on disk.
fl.findDocumentDOM() Lets you target a specific file by using its unique identifier.
fl.findDocumentIndex() Returns an array of integers that represent the position of a document
in the
fl.documents array.
fl.findObjectInDocByName() Exposes elements with instance names that match specified text.
fl.findObjectInDocByType() Exposes elements of a specified element type in a document.
fl.getAppMemoryInfo() Returns an integer that represents the number of bytes being used in
a specified area of Flash.exe memory.
fl.getDocumentDOM() Retrieves the DOM ( Document object ) of the currently active
document.
fl.getSwfPanel() Returns the SWFPanel object based on the panel's localized name or its
SWF filename.
fl.isFontInstalled() Determines whether a specified font is installed.
fl.mapPlayerURL() Maps an escaped Unicode URL to a UTF-8 or MBCS URL.