Displaying movie clip properties and changing editable properties

The Debugger's Properties tab displays all the property values of any movie clip on the Stage. You can change a value and see its effect in the SWF file while it runs. Some movie clip properties are read-only and cannot be changed.

To display a movie clip's properties in the Debugger:

Select a movie clip from the display list.
Click the Properties tab in the Debugger.

To modify a property value:

Double-click the value, and enter a new value.

The value cannot be an expression. For example, you can enter 50 or "clearwater", but you cannot enter x + 50. The value can be a string (any value surrounded by quotation marks), a number, or a Boolean value (true or false). You can't enter object or array values (for example, {id: "rogue"} or [1, 2, 3]) in the Debugger.

For more information, see String operators and Using operators to manipulate values in expressions.

Note: To write the value of an expression to the Output panel in test mode, use the trace statement. See Using the trace statement.