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Inheritance Element object > Instance object Availability Flash MX 2004. Description Instance is a subclass of the Element object. Property summary for the Instance objectIn addition to all of the Element object properties, Instance has the following properties:
instance.instanceTypeAvailability Flash MX 2004; acceptable value of "video" added in Flash 8. Usage instance.instanceType Description Read-only property; a string that represents the type of Instance. Acceptable values are "symbol", "bitmap", "embedded video", "linked video", "video", and "compiled clip". NOTE In Flash MX 2004, the value of instance.instanceType for an item added to the library using library.addNewItem("video") is "embedded_video". In Flash 8, the value is "video". See library.addNewItem(). Example The following example shows that the instance type of a movie clip is "symbol": // Select a movie clip, and then run this script. var type = fl.getDocumentDOM().selection[0].instanceType; fl.trace("This instance type is " + type); instance.libraryItemAvailability Flash MX 2004. Usage instance.libraryItem Description Property; a library item used to instantiate this instance. You can change this property only to another library item of the same type (that is, you cannot set a symbol instance to refer to a bitmap). See library object. Example The following example changes the selected symbol to refer to the first item in the library: fl.getDocumentDOM().selection[0].libraryItem = fl.getDocumentDOM().library.items[0]; |
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