Enterframe Events

EnterFrame is an event that get dispatched according to the frame rate of given movie. we can assign frame rate for a flash movie between 12 to 120.

Say if we associate an Enterframe event listener to Stage of a movie which has frame rate 20, flash run time tries to dispatch 20 Enterframe events per second. This is basically used to animate graphical objects in flash, but we cannot completely assume that this event will get triggered with respect to the given frame rate.

the Flash runtime does not always achieve the designated frame rate. If the computer is too slow to render frames fast enough to keep up with the designated frame rate, the animation slows down. This slowdown can even vary depending on the system load; if other programs are running or if Flash is performing some processor-intensive task, the frame rate may drop for only a short period and then resume its normal pace.