Click the Insert menu, point to Timeline, and then click Frame.. Click the Edit menu, point to Timeline, and then click Remove Frames.. Working with Scenes Open the Scene Panel and S
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Select One or More Frames
◆ To select one frame, click on the
frame
IMPORTANT If the Span
Based Selection preference is
turned on, clicking a frame selects
the entire frame sequence
between two keyframes
◆ To select multiple contiguous
frames, click the first frame in the
sequence, hold down Shift, and
then click the last frame in the
sequence
◆ To select multiple noncontiguous
frames, A+click (Mac) or
Ctrl+click (Win) the frames you
want to select
A frame displays content at a specific moment on the Stage The order
in which frames appear in the Timeline determines the order in which they appear in the document The Timeline displays each frame in sequential order from 1 to the end of the document As you play a
doc-ument, the playhead moves through the Timeline displaying the current
frame with each layer on the Stage When you work with frames, you can select, insert, delete, and move frames in the Timeline When you move frames in the Timeline, you can place them on the same layer or
a different layer If you want to display a specific frame in a document, you can move the playhead to the frame in the Timeline to display the frame content on the Stage Another type of frame is called a keyframe
A keyframe defines a change in an animation or uses actions to modify
a document
Select one frame
Select multiple contiguous frames
Select multiple noncontiguous frames Playhead
See Also
Did You Know?
You can center the Timeline on the
current frame Click the Center Frame
button at the bottom of the Timeline
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Click the frame’s location in the
Timeline header, or drag the
playhead to the frame where you
want to insert a frame
Click the Insert menu, point to
Timeline, and then click Frame.
Delete Frames
Select the frame, keyframe, or
sequence you want to delete
Click the Edit menu, point to
Timeline, and then click Remove
Frames.
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Did You Know?
You can move a frame sequence or
keyframe Drag the frame sequence or
keyframe to another location in the
Timeline
You can copy a frame sequence or
keyframe Option+drag (Mac) or
Alt+drag (Win) the frame sequence or
keyframe to another location in the
Timeline
Did You Know?
You can add labels to frames to
refer-ence in ActionScripts In the Timeline,
select the frame you want In the
Property Inspector, enter a name in the
Name box under Label
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Open the Scene Panel and
Select a Scene
Click the Window menu, point to
Other Panels, and then click
Scene.
TIMESAVER Press Shift+F2
A list of scenes appears in order in
the panel In a new document, the
Scene panel displays only the
default Scene 1
Click the scene you want to
display
Add a Scene
If necessary, open the Scene
panel
Click the Add Scene button in the
Scene panel
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If a project requires a lot of animations with hundreds of frames, you can organize the animations into scenes to make them easier to work with and manage The Scene panel makes it easy to display the number
of scenes in the document, select current scenes for editing, create new scenes, duplicate scenes, delete scenes, and reorder them You can also use the Edit bar to select a scene to edit When you select a scene, Flash displays it on the Stage When you publish a document as
a movie, the scenes play in order unless you add interactivity to play them differently Be aware that scenes are treated like self-contained movies, so transitions between scenes with interactivity may not be seamless
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Did You Know?
Flash names scenes in order based on
the highest number If you add Scenes
2 and 3, and then delete Scene 2, the
next time you add a scene, Flash
names it Scene 4
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If necessary, open the Scene
panel
Double-click the scene you want
to rename
Type a new name
Press Return (Mac) or Enter (Win)
Delete a Scene
If necessary, open the Scene
panel
Click the scene you want to delete
Click the Delete Scene button in
the Scene panel
Click OK to confirm the deletion.
TIMESAVER If you don’t want
to display the Confirmation dialog
box, press A+click (Mac) or
Ctrl+click (Win) the Delete Scene
button
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Did You Know?
You can undo the deletion of a scene.
If you mistakenly delete a scene, you
can undo; press A+Z (Mac) or
Ctrl+Z (Win)
You can reorder scenes in the Scene
panel In the Scene panel, drag a
selected scene up or down in the list
Playing and Testing Scenes
After you finish creating and working with scenes in a Flash docu-ment, you can quickly playback all the scenes in Flash or test a scene in a browser with commands on the Control menu To play-back all scenes in the order in which they appear in the Scenes panel, click the Control menu, and then click Play All Scenes To test the active scene, click the Control menu, and then click Test Scene
To change the settings for the SWF file created using the Test Scene command, use the Publish Settings command on the File menu
For Your Information
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Show and Hide the Edit Bar
◆ To display the Edit bar, click the
Window menu, point to Toolbars,
and then click Edit Bar to select
the check mark
◆ To hide the Edit bar, click the
Window menu, point to Toolbars,
and then click Edit Bar to deselect
the check mark
The Edit bar contains controls and information for editing scenes and symbols, and for changing the view size of the Stage The Edit bar lets you know what editing mode you are working in and allows you to switch scenes The Scene button allows you to edit a scene in document-editing mode, while the Symbol button allows you to edit symbols in the symbol-editing mode The Back button on the Edit bar returns you to document-editing mode
Click to select (show) or deselect (hide) the check mark.
Current scene or symbol being edited
Edit bar Back button
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Click the View Size list arrow in
the Edit bar, and then select a view
size percentage or an option:
◆ Fit To Window
◆ Show Frame
◆ Show All
Select a Scene or Symbol to Edit
◆ To select a scene, click the Edit
Scene button in the Edit bar, and
then select a scene from the list
◆ To select a symbol, click the Edit
Symbol button in the Edit bar, and
then select a symbol from the list
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Edit Symbol button Edit Scene button
Did You Know?
You can use the Hand tool to move the
Stage to change the view Click the
Hand tool (H) on the Tools panel, and
then drag the Stage to change the
view
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Toolbar
Show and Hide the Main
Toolbar in Windows
◆ To display the Main toolbar, click
the Window menu, point to
Toolbars, and then click Main to
select the check mark
◆ To hide the Main toolbar, click the
Window menu, point to Toolbars,
and then click Main to deselect
the check mark
If you use Windows, you can display and use the Main toolbar above the Document menu window to quickly access common document and object-related commands, such as New, Open, Save, Print, Cut, Copy, Paste, Redo, Undo, Snap To Objects, Smooth, Straighten, Rotate And Skew, Scale, and Align When you’re finished working with the Main toolbar, you can hide it to create more workspace
Click to select (show) or deselect (hide) the check mark.
Main toolbar
Did You Know?
You can use Undo and Redo
com-mands on the menu bar The Undo and
Redo commands on the Edit menu
undo (returns you to a previous point)
and redo (re-performs commands you
undid) actions you’ve taken in a
docu-ment The names of the Undo and Redo
commands change to reflect the
cur-rent action
Flash supports 100 undo and redo
levels To change the number of undo
levels, click the Edit (Win) or Flash
(Mac) menu, click the General tab,
specify a number in the Undo Levels
box, and then click OK The lower the
number of levels, the less amount of
memory the program needs to run