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A Frame is the container for all operations that position or alter graphical or sound symbols on a stage over a single time instance and is evaluated at the rate specified by the movie's rate attribute. Frames can occur under two different Timeline elements: the main movie timeline, and the timeline of a MovieClip. The visual and audio contents of a frame is dependent on all operations that took place in all frames preceding the frame on the same timeline and the operations defined on the frame itself. In additional the contents of a frame can be affected by scripts executed within any timeline in the movie providing a named reference exist to current timeline.

Attributes

frameNo Optional attribute indicating the position of the frame in timeline. Output when decompiling but not used on input.
TypeInteger
frameLabel Optional attribute that defines a label for the frame. This label can be used in ActionScript operations to move the play head. A label must be specified if the anchorFrame attribute is set to 'yes'.
Type String containing only characters valid for a URI path part.
anchorFrame Optional attribute that, when set, specifies that the frame can be bookmarked by an external browser. Only frames in the main timeline can be anchor frames. In order to use anchor frames the anchors are specified after the SWF Object tag in the HTML file using the NAME attribute. The frameLabel attribute defines the fragment identifier within the parent document identifying the frame.
Valuesno
yes
Default Valueno

Child Elements

FrameLabel
FrameActions
Place
Alter
Replace
Remove
TabIndex
PlaceSound

Parent Elements

Timeline

Examples

MorphShape Example
Square to Circle Morph Example
Video Example
Animate simple symbols on timeline
ActionScript on the Timeline
Color Gradient Examples
Dynamic MovieClip Clipping
Button Example
Button Sound Example
Example Of MovieClip classes
Example Of MovieClip classes and scripted animations
Defines simple symbol for export
Timeline Replace Examples
ADPCM Sound Example
Simple MP3 Sound Example
ActionScriptSettings Example
Button DragTarget Example
CArcs Example
Circle Examples
Color Specification Example
Timeline Color Transformations
Quadratic Curve Example
Elliptical Arcs Example
Examples of Elliptical Arcs and Circular Arcs
SVG Arc Example in RVML
EditField Examples
EditField Transformations
Raw MP3 Example
Font Manipulation Examples
HTML Support in EditFields
Font Range Examples
ImageFill Examples
ImageShape Example
Import and Export a Symbol
Importing symbols at runtime
Line Style Z-Ordering
Line Style and Scaling
Polygon Example
Simple Polyline Example
Rectangle Example
Text Segments Example
Shape Fill Examples
Shape Origin Example
Shape Transform Examples
Sound Envelope Example
Clipping and Text Clipping Example
Simple MP3 Sound From URL Example
User-Defined Font Example

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