SWF Action Script

[Xeris2]

Does anyone know how action script is put in a swf file?
i.e. How would I do some type of if statement?

[Northcode]

It's not added as human readable source, but as bytecode that is interpreted by the Flash VM. Have a look at flasm for some of the dirty details.

[Xeris2]

Thank you.

[Xeris2]

Does anyone know the swf action to check is mouse click is down? Or where to find that information?

[Northcode]

Write the simplest code you can, then disassemble the SWF with flasm and you can see how anything works.

[Xeris2]

Can clip actions be used to stop frames?

What Im trying to do is if I hold the mouse down then stop the frame.
In the swf specs it says that clip actions can only be used for sprites.
Im not sure what they mean by that could someone explain?

[Xeris2]

I am trying to jump to frame 1 by using the mouseDown event.

I have this.

onClipEvent(mouseDown)
{
gotoAndPlay(1);
}

So when I have the mouse clicked down shouldn't it go to frame one?

[Northcode]

I believe the mouseDown event will only be triggered if you actually click the mouse on the target clip, not if you just have the mouse held down when the clip appears on the timeline. In AS2 there were some ASNative functions that returned state information, there might be something similar in AS3. You're likely to get a better answer to this in one of the more Flash focused forums or someplace like the flashcoders mailing list.

[Xeris2]

Does anyone know how many items can be pushed on the stack. If I try to do 2 strings in a row my swf file gets corrupted. I don't know if its something that I am doing or if its because the stack can only hold so much data.