INDEX 571 about 475 displaying contents of 477 Flash Player settings and 557 security and 477, 559 SharedObject class 475, 546 SharedObject.getLocal() method 558, 559 SharedObject.getRemote() method 559 shift() method 147 shortcut menu (context menu) 455 significand 53 SimpleButton class 252 SimpleClock example 127 single quotation mark in strings 132 skewing display objects 313 skewing matrixes 313, 314 slash syntax 60 slashes backslash (\) 132, 191 forward slash (/) 190, 191 slice() method Array class 151 String class 135 smoothing bitmaps 380 Socket class 472, 546, 555 socket connections 472 socket server 473 sorting arrays 148, 149 sound sample application 443 security of 549, 554 sending to and from a server 443 Sound class 542, 546, 549 SoundFacade class 444 SoundLoaderContext class 542 SoundMixer.computeSpectrum() method 550, 553, 554 SoundMixer.stopAll() method 554 source path 37 speakers and microphones 441 speed, improving for rendering 273 splice() method 147 split() method 136 Sprite class 252 sprite, first loaded 248, 286 SpriteArranger class example 289 Stage about 231, 247 as display object container 249 properties, setting 260 security 551 Stage class 231 Stage owner 551 StageDisplayState class 547 standard mode 50, 76 star (*). See asterisk static attribute 90 static methods 92 static properties declaring 87 inheritance 106 within scope chain 107 XML 212 static text accessing 368 creating 252 static text fields 356 static variables 90 StaticText class 252 status change events 177 status-based error events 176 stopAll() method (SoundMixer class) 554 stopImmediatePropogation() method 235 stopping movie clips 348 stopPropogation() method 235 storing data 475 streaming video 402 strict inequality (!==) operator 133 strict mode about 48 casting 56 dot syntax and 76 explicit conversion 56 returning values 77 run-time errors 50 String class charAt() method 133 charCodeAt() method 133 concat() method 134 fromCharCode() method 133 indexOf() method 135 lastIndexOf() method 135 match() method 136 replace() method 137 search() method 136 slice() method 135 split() method 136 substr() and substring() methods 135 toLowerCase() and toUpperCase() methods 138 String data type 54 string keys 152 string representations of objects 134 strings character position 135 checking matches in regular expressions 202 combining arrays into character- delimited string 163 common tasks 130 comparing 133 concatenating 134 converting case 138 converting data type for XML attributes 223 converting XML objects to 222 declaring 131 example 138, 139 finding substrings 135 index positions 133 length 132 matching substrings 197 patterns, finding 135, 136 replacing text 136 substrings 135, 136 terms 131 style sheets. See CSS StyleSheet class 363 subclasses 101 substr() and substring() methods 135 substrings about 135 creating based on a delimiter 136 finding and replacing 135, 136 matching in regular expressions 197 super statement 92, 93, 105 superclasses 101 superconstructor for arrays 158 SWF files communication between domains 471 communication between instances 469 determining run-time environment 497