FLASH CS3
User Guide
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To deselect a panel, press Escape, or move, dock, or undock the panel.
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To move the focus to the panel above or below the current panel in a panel group, press Up Arrow or Down Arrow.
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To hide all panels and the Property inspector, press F4. To display all panels and the Property inspector, press F4
again.
Use keyboard shortcuts to expand or collapse panels or the Property inspector
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Press F6 (Windows) or F6 (Macintosh) until the panel to expand or collapse has focus. A
dotted line appears around the title of the currently focused panel.
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To expand or collapse the currently selected panel, press the Spacebar.
Select controls in a panel or the Property inspector using keyboard shortcuts
To move the focus through the panel controls when a panel or the Property inspector has the current focus, use the
Tab key. To activate the control that has the current focus, use the Spacebar (that is, pressing Spacebar is equivalent
to clicking a control in the panel).
When you use the keyboard shortcut for panel controls, focus is applied to a control and the control is activated using
the following criteria:
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To select a control in the panel with the Tab key, the panel with the current focus must be expanded. If the panel
is collapsed, pressing Tab has no effect.
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When the panel with the current focus is expanded, pressing Tab the first time moves the focus to the panel’s Panel
menu.
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To move the focus between the Panel menu and the panel title bar, use Right Arrow and Left Arrow.
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If the focus is on the Panel menu, press Tab again to move the focus through the other controls in the panel.
Pressing Tab again does not return the focus to the Panel menu.
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To display the Panel menu items when the Panel menu has the focus, press Enter (Windows only).
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To move the focus between the Panel menus of the panels in the group in panels that are grouped, use Up Arrow
and Down Arrow.
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You can move the focus to a panel control only if the control is active. If a control is dimmed (inactive), you cannot
apply focus to the control.
Move the focus from a panel title bar to a panel options menu
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Do one of the following:
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Press Tab.
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Press Right Arrow. To return the focus to the panel title bar, press Left Arrow or Shift+Tab.
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To move the focus to the Panel menu of the panel immediately above the panel with the current focus if the panel
is in a group, press Up Arrow. To move the focus to the Panel menu of the panel immediately below the panel with
the current focus, press Down Arrow.
Move the focus through the items in the Panel menu of a panel
1
To display the Panel menu items with the focus currently applied to the Panel menu, press the Spacebar.
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To move through the items in the Panel menu, press Down Arrow.
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To activate the currently selected Panel menu item, press Enter (Windows) or Return (Macintosh).