Macromedia has created a new profile of the Flash Player called Macromedia® FlashT Lite, designed for consumer mobile devices, including phones for the i-mode service by NTT DoCoMo. This format is designed to run optimally on devices with limited memory, processor speed, and display area. Content created for Flash Lite is most similar to Flash Player 4 content.

The Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004 User Guide for Flash Lite describes, in general, tools and guidelines for authors creating Flash Lite movies. This document contains authoring information specific to creating movies for i-mode phones.

Free Ebook Programming : Macromedia Flash MX : Flash Lite Authoring Guidelines for the i-mode Service by NTT DoCoMo.pdf

ActionScript and properties

Flash Lite for i-mode supports most Flash 4 ActionScript commands. The following are notable exceptions:

• Use the add operator instead of the & command to concatenate strings.
• Button mouse events such as dragOver, dragOut, and releaseOutside cannot be used to trigger ActionScript attached to buttons. However, in addition to keypress events, the events press, release, rollOver, and rollOut can be used to trigger ActionScript when attached to buttons and accessed through key-based navigation.
• Draggable movie clip functions and properties (for example: startDrag, stopDrag, and _dropTarget properties) are not supported.
• Use the eq operator to compare strings and the == operator for numeric comparison............more

• URL encoding must be done manually using ActionScript. The escape() ActionScript function is not a Flash 4 function and is not available in Flash Lite.
• The fscommand() function is not supported.
• The default Quality level for Flash Lite during playback is medium and there is no support for bitmap smoothing.
• The getURL() function can only be called once per keypress, and can only be used for the http, mailto, https and tel protocols. Only the first getURL() call in a keypress statement block is executed; all subsequent getURL() calls in the same block are ignored.
• A button action can be assigned to launch an e-mail composition window with the address, subject, and body text fields already populated. There are two methods to do this. Method 1 can be used for either Shift-JIS or English character encoding, while method 2 only supports English character encoding.

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