document.currentTimeline

#### Availability

Flash MX 2004.

#### Usage

document.currentTimeline

#### Description

Property; an integer that specifies the index of the active timeline. You can set the active timeline by changing the value of this property; the effect is almost equivalent to calling document.editScene() (../Document_object/docume57.md). The only difference is that you don’t get an error message if the index of the timeline is not valid; the property is simply not set, which causes silent failure.

#### Example

javascript
The following example displays the index of the current timeline:
var myCurrentTL = fl.getDocumentDOM().currentTimeline; 

fl.trace("The index of the current timeline is: "+ myCurrentTL);
The following example changes the active timeline from the main timeline to a scene named "myScene": var i = 0;

var curTimelines = fl.getDocumentDOM().timelines; 

while(i < fl.getDocumentDOM().timelines.length){

    if(curTimelines[i].name == "myScene"){ 

        fl.getDocumentDOM().currentTimeline = i;

    }

++i;

}

document.getTimeline() (../Document_object/docume88.md)