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EXTENDING FLASH CS4 PROFESSIONAL

flash object (fl)

Usage

fl.showIdleMessage(show)

Parameters

show

A Boolean value specifying whether to enable or disable the warning about a script running too long.

Returns
Nothing.

Description
Method; lets you disable the warning about a script running too long (pass

false

for show). You might want to do this

when processing batch operations that take a long time to complete. To re-enable the alert, issue the command again,
this time passing

true

for show.

Example
The following example illustrates how to disable and re-enable the warning about a script running too long:

fl.showIdleMessage(false);

var result = timeConsumingFunction();

fl.showIdleMessage(true); ;

var result = timeConsumingFunction();

fl.sourcePath

Availability
Flash CS4 Professional.

Usage

fl.sourcePath

Description
Property; a string that contains a list of items in the global ActionScript 3.0 Source path, which specifies the location
of ActionScript class files. Items in the string are delimited by semi-colons. In the authoring tool, the items are specified
by choosing Edit > Preferences

> ActionScript > ActionScript 3.0 Settings.

Example
The following example adds the /Classes folder to the global ActionScript 3.0 Source path:

fl.trace(fl.sourcePath);
fl.sourcePath = "/Classes;" + fl.sourcePath;
fl.trace(fl.sourcePath);

See also

fl.flexSDKPath

,

fl.externalLibraryPath

,

fl.libraryPath

,

document.sourcePath