Adobe Extending Flash Professional CS4 - Manual (Page 300)

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Chapter 21: Frame object
Availability
Flash MX 2004.
Description
The Frame object represents frames in the layer.
Method summary
The following methods can be used with the Frame object:
Property summary
The following properties can be used with the Frame object:
Method Description
frame.getCustomEase() Returns an array of JavaScript objects, each of which has an x and y property.
frame.setCustomEase() Specifies a cubic Bézier curve to be used as a custom ease curve.
Property Description
frame.actionScript A string representing ActionScript code.
frame.duration Read-only; an integer that represents the number of frames in a frame
sequence.
frame.elements Read-only; an array of Element objects (see Element object ).
frame.hasCustomEase A Boolean value that specifies whether the frame gets its ease information from
the custom ease curve.
frame.labelType A string that specifies the type of Frame name.
frame.motionTweenOrientToPath A Boolean value that specifies whether or not the tweened element rotates the
element as it moves along a path to maintain its angle with respect to each
point on the path.
frame.motionTweenRotate A string that specifies how the tweened element rotates.
frame.motionTweenRotateTimes An integer that specifies the number of times the tweened element rotates
between the starting keyframe and the next keyframe.
frame.motionTweenScale A Boolean value that specifies whether the tweened element scales to the size
of the object in the following keyframe, increasing its size with each frame in the
tween (
true ), or doesn’t scale ( false ).
frame.motionTweenSnap A Boolean value that specifies whether the tweened element automatically
snaps to the nearest point on the motion guide layer associated with this
frame’s layer (
true ) or not ( false ).
frame.motionTweenSync A Boolean value that if set to true , synchronizes the animation of the tweened
object with the main timeline.
frame.name A string that specifies the name of the frame.
frame.shapeTweenBlend A string that specifies how a shape tween is blended between the shape in the
keyframe at the start of the tween and the shape in the following keyframe.