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Timelines and Animation
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To display objects on all layers as outlines, click the outline icon. To turn off outline display on all layers, click it
again.
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To display objects on all layers
other
than the current layer as outlines, Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click
(Macintosh) in the Outline column to the right of a layer’s name. To turn off the outline display for all layers,
Alt-click or Option-click in it again.
Change a layer’s outline color
1
Do one of the following:
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Double-click the layer’s icon (the icon to the left of the layer name) in the Timeline.
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Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) the layer name and select Properties from the context menu.
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Select the layer in the Timeline and select Modify > Timeline > Layer Properties.
2
In the Layer Properties dialog box, click the Outline Color box, select a new color, and click OK.
Note:
Motion paths on the layer also use the layer outline color.
Guide layers
For help in aligning objects when drawing, create guide layers and align objects on other layers to the objects you create
on the guide layers. Guide layers are not exported and do not appear in a published SWF file. Any layer can be a guide
layer. Guide layers are indicated by a guide icon to the left of the layer name.
See also
“
Align objects
” on page 121
“
Motion tweens
” on page 187
“
Using inverse kinematics
” on page 223
“
Create classic tween motion along a path
” on page 213
Create a guide layer
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Select the layer and Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) and select Guide from the context menu.
To change the layer back to a normal layer, select Guide again.
Create a motion guide layer
To control the movement of objects in a
classic tween
animation, create a motion guide layer.
You cannot drag a
motion tween
layer or inverse kinematics
pose layer
onto a guide layer.
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Drag a normal layer onto a guide layer. This converts the guide layer to a motion guide layer and links the normal
layer to the new motion guide layer.
Note:
To prevent accidentally converting a guide layer, place all guide layers at the bottom of the layer order.
About multiple timelines and levels
Flash® Player has a stacking order of levels. Every Flash document has a main Timeline located at level 0 in Flash Player.
You can use the
loadMovie
command to load other Flash documents (SWF files) into Flash Player at different levels.
Updated 5 March 2009