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40 Chapter 3: Getting to Know the Workspace
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For Selection Options, select or deselect Shift Select to control how Flash handles selection of
multiple elements. When Shift Select is off, clicking additional elements adds them to the
current selection. When Shift Select is on, clicking additional elements deselects other
elements unless you hold down the Shift key.
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Select Show Tooltips to display tooltips when the pointer pauses over a control. Deselect this
option if you don’t want to see the tooltips.
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For Timeline Options, select Disable Timeline Docking to keep the Timeline from attaching
itself to the application window once it has been separated into its own window. For more
information, see
“Using the Timeline” on page 23 .
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Select Span Based Selection to use span-based selection in the Timeline, rather than the default
frame-based selection. For more information on span-based and frame-based selection, see
“Working with frames in the Timeline” on page 27 .
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Select Named Anchor on Scenes to have Flash make the first frame of each scene in a
document a named anchor. Named anchors let you use the Forward and Back buttons in a
browser to jump from scene to scene in a Flash application.
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For Highlight Color, select Use This Color and select a color from the palette, or select Use
Layer Color (the default option) to use the current layer’s outline color.
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For Font Mapping Default, select a font to use when substituting missing fonts in documents
you open in Flash. See “Substituting missing fonts” in
Using Flash . .
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For On Launch options, select an option to specify which document Flash opens when you
start the application. Select Show Start Page to display the Start Page. Select New Document
to open a new, blank document. Select Last Documents Open to open the documents that
were open when you last quit Flash. Select No Document to start Flash without opening
a document.
To set editing preferences, do any of the following:
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For Pen Tool options, see “Setting Pen tool preferences” in Using Flash .
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For Vertical Text options, select Default Text Orientation to make the default orientation
of text vertical, which is useful for some Asian language fonts. By default, this option
is deselected.
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Select Right to Left Text Flow to reverse the default text display direction. This option is
deselected by default.
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Select No Kerning to turn off kerning for vertical text. This option is deselected by default but
is useful to improve spacing for some fonts that use kerning tables.
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For Drawing Settings, see “Specifying drawing settings” in Using Flash .
Note: If you are using Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004, you can select Project
preferences on the Editing tab, for closing and saving project files. See “Creating and managing
projects (Flash Professional only)” in
Using Flash .