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EXTENDING FLASH CS4 PROFESSIONAL

flash object (fl)

Mac

OS X:

Macintosh HD/Users/username/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Flash
CS3/language/Configuration/Tools/toolConfig.xml

Example
The following example selects the Pen tool.

fl.selectTool("pen");

See also

Tools object

,

ToolObj object

fl.setActiveWindow()

Availability
Flash MX 2004.

Usage

fl.setActiveWindow(document [, bActivateFrame])

Parameters

document

A

Document object

that specifies the document to select as the active window.

bActivateFrame

An optional parameter that is ignored by Flash and Fireworks and is present only for compatibility

with Dreamweaver.

Returns
Nothing.

Description
Method; sets the active window to be the specified document. This method is also supported by Dreamweaver and
Fireworks. If the document has multiple views (created by Window

> Duplicate Window), the most recently active

view is selected.

Example
The following example shows two ways to activate a specified document:

fl.setActiveWindow(fl.documents[0]);

var theIndex = fl.findDocumentIndex("myFile.fla");

fl.setActiveWindow(fl.documents[theIndex]);

fl.showIdleMessage()

Availability
Flash 8.