MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-GETTING STARTED WITH FLASH, Getting Started

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80 Flash Basics
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For Test Movie Options, select Open Test Movie in Tabs to have Flash
open a new document tab in the application window when you select
Control > Test Movie. The default is to open the test movie in its
own window.
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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 Shift.
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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Select Contact Sensitive to have objects become selected when any part
of them is included in the marquee rectangle when dragging with the
Selection or Lasso tools. The default is that objects are only selected
when the tool’s marquee rectangle completely surrounds the object.
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For Timeline Options, 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 59 .
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. For more information, see
“Using the
Timeline” on page 54 .
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For Highlight Color, select a color from the panel, or select Use Layer
Color to use the current layer’s outline color.
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For Project, select Close Files with Project to have all files in a project
close when the project file is closed.
Select Save Files on Test or Publish Project to have each file in a project
saved whenever the project is tested or published.
For more information, see “Creating and managing projects (Flash
Professional only)” in
Using Flash .
To set ActionScript preferences:
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See “About ActionScript preferences” in Learning ActionScript 2.0
in Flash .
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