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Additional Lingo APIs 19

-- "oak,ash,elm,beech"

put flashtrees[0]

-- "oak"

// JavaScript syntax

trees = list("oak", "ash", "elm", "beech");

flashtrees = convert(symbol("flashObjectArray"), trees);

trace (flashtrees.tostring()); // oak,ash,elm,beech

trace(flashtrees[1]); // ash

--Lingo syntax

bikes = newObject("Array", "trek", "giant", "schwinn", "colnago")

lingobikes = convert(#list, bikes)

put lingobikes

-- ["trek", "giant", "schwinn", "colnago"]

put lingobikes[1]

-- "trek"

// JavaScript syntax

bikes = newObject("Array", "trek", "giant", "schwinn", "colnago");

lingobikes = convert(symbol("list"), bikes);

trace(lingobikes.toString()); // <["trek", "giant", "schwinn", "colnago"]>

trace(lingobikes[1]); // trek

When setting an array property of a component sprite or member, lists are now properly

converted to Flash arrays. For example, if sprite 1 is a List component, you can use the

following code to assign the

labels property:

--Lingo syntax

sprite(1).labels = ["uno", "dos", "tres", "quatro", "cinco"]

// JavaScript syntax

sprite(1).labels = list("alpha", "beta", "gamma", "delta", "epsilon");

Additional Lingo APIs

Macromedia added two additional Flash sprite APIs in Director 10.1: propDirectAccess

and

createVariable().

NOTE

The only other new Flash sprite API is the convert() function (this API is also a top-level

function), which is covered in the section “About ActionScript image effects”

on page 14.

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