Introduction

As a Macromedia Flash user, you may be familiar with ActionScript, which lets you create scripts that execute at runtime in Macromedia Flash Player. The Flash JavaScript application programming interface (JavaScript API) is a complementary programming tool that lets you create scripts that run in the authoring environment.

This document describes the objects, methods, and properties available in the JavaScript API. It assumes that you know how to use the documented commands when working in the authoring environment. If you have a question about what a particular command does, use other documents in Flash Help, such as Using Flash, to find that information.

This document also assumes that you are familiar with JavaScript or ActionScript syntax and with basic programming concepts such as functions, parameters, and data types.

This chapter contains the following sections:

Overview of the Macromedia Flash JavaScript API	5
What's new in the JavaScript API	10
The Flash Document Object Model	14
Sample implementations	19