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Simplemenu Settings

Alexis Wilke — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 21:10:18 +0000

Menu Settings

Theme

Select a theme to display your Simplemenu items and dropdowns. The default is called original.

The themes reside in the module sub-folder named themes. Each theme is defined in a specific directory named after the theme. That name is what appears in the dropdown in the settings.

It is possible to add new themes as

Flash 64 bit under Ubuntu not letting you click?!

Doug Barbieri — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:01:12 +0000

Use this excellent article if you are having difficulty clicking in your flash window (and you’re running Ubuntu 64 9.10):

64bit Java / Flash Deathroll | Speaking What We See. (unfortunately, that page was removed.)

He also rightly clears up the Java issue. This is a way to get native 64 bit installations for both Sun Java and Adobe Flash.

Set Local Variable

Alexis Wilke — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:42:33 +0000

SWF Action

Action Category:

Variables

Action Details:

Action Identifier:

Action Structure:

<n.a.>

Action Length:

0 byte(s)

Action Stack:

pop 1 (a), pop 1 (s)

Action Operation:

a₁ := pop();
s₂ := pop();
*s₂ := a₁;

Action Flash Version:

See Also:

Declare Local Variable

Get Member

Get Property

Get Variable

Push Data

Set Member

Set Property

Set Variable

Store Register

Pop a value and a local variable name. Create or set a local variable of that name with the (initial) value as specified. The same local variable can safely be set in this way multiple times. To only declare a local variable (i.e. no default value to initialize the variable,) use the Declare Local Variable instead.

Ord (multi-byte)

Alexis Wilke — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 04:20:45 +0000

SWF Action

Action Category:

String and Characters

Action Details:

(multi-byte)

Action Identifier:

Action Structure:

<n.a.>

Action Length:

0 byte(s)

Action Stack:

pop 1 (s), push 1 (i)

Action Operation:

s₁ := pop();
r := s₁[0];
push(r);

Action Flash Version:

See Also:

Chr

Chr (multi-byte)

Ord

SubString

SubString (multi-byte)

Pops one string, compute the multi-byte value of its first character and put it on the stack.

In Flash, multi-byte characters are limited to 16 bits (UCS-2).

Get Variable

Alexis Wilke — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 03:35:18 +0000

SWF Action

Action Category:

Variables

Action Details:

Action Identifier:

Action Structure:

<n.a.>

Action Length:

0 byte(s)

Action Stack:

pop 1 (s), push 1 (a)

Action Operation:

s1 := pop();
r := *s₁;
push(r);

Action Flash Version:

See Also:

Get Member

Get Property

Set Local Variable

Set Member

Set Property

Set Variable

Pop one string, search for a variable of that name, and push its value on the stack. This action first checks for local variables in the current function. If there isn't such a variable, or the execution is not in a function, then the corresponding global variable is read.

The variable name can include sprite names separated by slashes and finished by a colon as in. Only global variables are accessible in this way.

Example:

Get URL2

Alexis Wilke — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 03:26:54 +0000

SWF Action

Action Category:

Movie

Action Details:

Action Identifier:

154

Action Structure:

unsigned char f_method;

Action Length:

1 byte(s)

Action Stack:

pop 2 (s)

Action Operation:

s₁ := pop();
s₂ := pop();
s₁.load(s₂, f_method);

Action Flash Version:

See Also:

Duplicate Sprite

Get URL

FSCommand2

Pop two strings, the URL (s₂) and the target name (s₁).

All the usual HTML target names seem to be supported (_top, _blank, <frame name>, etc.) You can also use the special internal names _level0 to _level10. _level0 is the current movie. Other levels, I'm still not too sure how these can be used.

Sprite Properties

Alexis Wilke — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 02:34:07 +0000

The following is the list of currently accepted properties or fields for the Get Property and the Set Property actions. Note that the properties can be specified with either an integer (type 7, requires V5.0+) or a single precision floating point (type 1, V4.0 compatible). And since strings are automatically transformed in a value when required, one can use a string to represent the property number (type 0).

FSCommand2

Alexis Wilke — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 08:41:01 +0000

SWF Action

Action Category:

Miscellaneous

Action Details:

Action Identifier:

Action Structure:

<n.a.>

Action Length:

0 byte(s)

Action Stack:

pop 1 (i), pop i1 (s)

Action Operation:

i₁ := pop();
for(idx := 2; idx < i₁ + 2; ++i₁) {
s_idx := pop();

}
fscommand2(s₂, s₃, ..., s_{(i1 + 1)});

Action Flash Version:

See Also:

Get URL

Get URL2

Get Variable

Execute the external command (s₂) passing on parameters (s₃, s₄ ... s_n.) The external command is likely a JavaScript function.

IMPORTANT NOTES

Ammar Mardawi sent a correction for this action and it looks like it works the way it is described now.

SWF Internal Functions

Alexis Wilke — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 10:50:52 +0000

Since Flash version 5, you can use internal functions (really member functions or methods of internal objects.) These functions are always available. These methods are called using the Call Function action with the name of the object and function separated by a period. A few of these internal functions are duplicates of some direct action script instructions. In general, it is preferred to use these internal functions rather than the direct action.

Duplicate Sprite

Alexis Wilke — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 09:51:30 +0000

SWF Action

Action Category:

Movie

Action Details:

Action Identifier:

Action Structure:

<n.a.>

Action Length:

0 byte(s)

Action Stack:

pop 1 (i), pop 2 (s)

Action Operation:

i₁ := pop();
s₂ := pop();
s₃ := pop();
duplicate_sprite(s₃, s₂, i₁);

Action Flash Version:

See Also:

DefineSprite

Get URL

Get URL2

New

Remove Sprite

s₃ is the name of an existing sprite1 which is copied by this action.

The new sprite is given the name s₂ and is placed at depth i₁.

1. Remember that a sprite, movie, thread and other terms that I forget, are all the same thing.