filter.distance

#### Availability

Flash 8.

#### Usage

filter.distance

#### Description

Property; a float value that specifies the distance between the filter’s effect and an object, in pixels. Acceptable values are from -255 to 255. This property is defined for Filter objects with a value of "bevelFilter", "dropShadowFilter", "gradientBevelFilter", or "gradientGlowFilter" for the filter.name (../Filter_object/filter13.md) property.

#### Example

The following example sets the distance to 10 pixels for the Drop Shadow filters on the selected object(s):

javascript

var myFilters = fl.getDocumentDOM().getFilters();

for(i=0; i < myFilters.length; i++){

if(myFilters[i].name == 'dropShadowFilter'){

myFilters[i].distance = 10;

}

}

fl.getDocumentDOM().setFilters(myFilters);

document.setFilterProperty() (../Document_object/docum520.md)