Limits of flash

Flash has some limits, very handy to know:

DOCUMENT

size:

-width: 1 to 2880

-height: 1 to 2880

drawing extents within:

-width: -720 to document width + 720

-height: -720 to document height + 720

-grid spacing: 7.2 to 288

-frame rate: .01 to 120

-frames: 16000

-layers: 16000

-movieclip instances: 16000

-loaded movies (in levels): 16000

MOVIECLIP

drawing extents within:

-width: -720 to 720

-height: -720 to 720 (1440×1440)

-_xscale/_yscale values: ~ 3276800

-_alpha values: 256

-_alpha steps: ~ .4 (don’t increment _alpha below that value)

-_x/_y steps: .05 (don’t increment _x/_y below that value)

-_rotation: -180 to 180 (you can set it to values beyond these but will revert to a value in that range)

-_rotation steps: .1 (_rotation wont be seen in increments below that value)

-attached clips before drastic attachMovie speed drop: ~ 800-1000 (common in grid creation; creating new clips to attach groups of clips, like each row, to will reduce the slowdown)

TEXT

-characters in a textfield: ~63000 (?)

-rotation of dynamic or input textfields w/o embedded fonts or static w/ device fonts: 0 (no rotation)

-max size of POST data (loadVars and XML Objects etc): around 64k

-characters for URLs set in Character panel: 127

SCRIPTING

depths:

-depths of existence: -16384 to 2130690045

(createEmptyMovieClip can surpass these values in creation but not always accurate

max reliable: 2147483647, min reliable: -2147483648)

-removable depths: 0 to 1048575

-recursive function call levels: 256

-loop calls: 400000 (?)

MISC

-Flash Player zoom: 2000%

-line thickness (Flash authoring): .1 to 10

-line thickness (AS): 0 to 256 (increments of 1; 0 is hairline)

-size of imported bitmap: 5×5 minimum

-shape hints: 0 to 26