Flash Naming Conventions

Hello!

Remember how Karl taught us to name the symbols in our Library according to what type they are:
"g_ball" for a graphic, for example, or "m_car" for a movie.

Well, Flash 8.0 has code hints for instances of objects for when you're writing actionscripts. For
example, if you're writing some script for a button instance you've named "play_btn", when you're
typing a script and you hit the dot to give you "play_btn." you get a drop-down list of properties and
methods to choose from, which is extremely helpful.

The code hints are set to work with a set list of suffixes. If you've got a button whose name ends
in "_btn", then the code hints for buttons will drop down while you're typing the script. I'm trying to
get into the habit now of naming all instances using the correct suffix, for help when I'm
scripting. Here's the list.

OBJECT            SUFFIX 
Array             _array 
Button            _btn
Camera            _cam
Color             _color
ContextMenu       _cm
ContextMenuItem   _cmi
Date              _date
Error             _err
LoadVars          _lv
LocalConnection   _lc
Microphone        _mic
MovieClip         _mc
MovieClipLoader   _mcl
NetConnection     _nc
NetStream         _ns
PrintJob          _pj
SharedObject      _so
Sound             _sound
String            _str
TextField         _txt
TextFormat        _fmt
Video             _video
XML               _xml
XMLNode           _xmlnode
XMLSocket         _xmlsocket

Hope this is useful.