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Flash MX Workspace Tools Panel
Title bar Menu bar Timeline To Display Tool Options:
Arrow Subselect Click a tool and select a
Line Lasso tool option from the bottom
Tools
of the Tools panel.
Panel Pen Text
Oval Rectangle To Constrain Shapes:
Pencil Brush Press the <Shift> key
Free Fill while dragging the shape.
Transform Transform
To End Open Path (Pen
Panel Ink Bottle Paint Bucket
Groups Tool): Press <Ctrl> and
Dropper Eraser
click to end the path
Hand Zoom To Convert a Corner
Stage or Point to a Curve Point:
Movie
Area
Stroke Click the Subselection
Color
Fill Color tool and press <Alt>, click
on the point you want to
change and drag.
To Create a New Corner
Tool
options Point: Click the Arrow
Property Inspector tool and press <Alt>, click
on the line where you want
Timeline to create a point and drag.
Show/ Lock/ Show All
Hide All Unlock Layers as Timeline Keyboard Shortcuts
Layers All Layers Outlines Playhead header
Import <Ctrl> + <R>
Export <Ctrl>+ <Shift> + <R>
Insert Frame <F5>
Insert Keyframe <F6>
Layers
Insert Blank Keyframe <F7>
Clear Keyframe <Shift> + <F6>
New Add Insert Delete Center Elapsed time Frame
Layer Motion Layer Layer frame Onion Frame Rate view Break Apart <Ctrl> + <B>
Guide Folder Skinning
Current Frame Convert to Symbol <F8>
buttons
Copy Frames <Ctrl> + <Alt> + <C>
• To Insert a Layer: Click the New Layer • To Clear a Keyframe: Select the Cut Frames <Ctrl> + <Alt> + <X>
button in the Timeline, or select Insert → keyframe and select Insert → Clear Keyframe
Paste Frames <Ctrl> + <Alt> + <V>
Layer from the menu. from the menu, or press <Shift> + <F6>. The
keyframe becomes a regular frame. Duplicate Selection <Ctrl> + <D>
• To Insert a Frame: Click an empty frame
on the Timeline and select Insert → Frame • To Create Frame-by-Frame Export Movie <Ctrl> + <Alt> +
from the menu, or press <F5>. Flash inserts Animation: Insert a keyframe in the <Shift> + <S>
frames from the last frame or keyframe to the selected layer, place an object on the stage. First Scene <Home>
selected point. Insert a keyframe in the next frame, change the Group Selected Items <Ctrl> + <G>
object from the first frame, and repeat.
• To Delete a Frame: Select the frame(s) Last Scene <End>
and select Insert → Remove Frames from the • To Insert Motion Tweened
Show/Hide Panels <Tab>
menu, or press <Shift> + <F5>. Animation: Insert a keyframe in the
selected layer and place a symbol or grouped Play Movie <Enter>
• To Insert a Keyframe: Click an empty object on the stage. Select the symbol and Remove Frames <Shift> + <F5>
frame on the Timeline and select Insert → select Insert → Create Motion Tween from
Keyframe from the menu, or press <F6>. the menu. Select the last frame you want to Rewind Movie <Ctrl> + <Alt> + <R>

• To Insert a Blank Keyframe: Click an include in the motion tween, and move the Show/Hide Timeline <Ctrl> + <Alt> + <Z>
empty frame on the Timeline and select Insert symbol to the final point of the tween. Step Forward <.>
→ Blank Keyframe from the menu, or press • To Change Timeline View: Click the Step Backward <,>
<F7>. Frame view button and select a view.

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 Panels Answers Movie Explorer
To View a Panel: Select Window from the Show
menu bar and select the panel you want to view. Or, movie
Search for
click the title of the panel group, or click the element
buttons a movie
expander arrow in panel group title bar. element

Movie
To View More Options: Click the panel’s outline
Options menu.
To Move, Dock, or Undock a Panel or
Panel Group: Drag the panel gripper (dotted
area on the left side of the panel title bar) to a new
location or docking area. Use the Movie Explorer as a map of the
Connect to the Macromedia web site to
learn about and access the most recent movie; search for movie content, organize
Color Mixer Fill Style
movie contents, view an outline of the
information about Flash.
movie’s structure, or select movie elements
Stroke color Actions for modification.
Fill color Color
Set Default
values
Pin current
script
Reference
Brush/Fill
Colors Swap Action
Brush/Fill description
No Stroke Colors
Open Description
or Fill Reference of the
Color Actions panel selected
available Actions
mixer action
for available
area
insertion for
Action insertion
toolbar

Create a new color, edit a color, use a

different color model in your document, or Insert ActionScript statements, or
create new colors to add to a color swatch. commands, into the movie. A description of
the selected action appears in the panel. Describes in detail the action selected on
Color Swatches the left side of the panel. Or, copy and
Options Transform
menu paste sample code into the Actions panel.
Height
Width Library
Rotation
degrees Library
Skew commands
Copy and
horizontally
apply
and
transform
vertically Reset Symbol
preview Sort by
Scale, rotate, or skew an object. Click the column

Create a new swatch to create your own Constrain box to maintain the object’s
color scheme, or modify an existing original proportions during transformation.
Expand
swatch. window
Align Vertical align buttons

Components Horizontal Vertical

distribute
Symbol
properties
Contract
window
align buttons
buttons New folder Delete
Horizontal symbol
New symbol
distribute Align to
Components buttons Stage
available for
The Library contains the symbols inserted
Match
insertion object size
Space in a movie. Organize symbols into folders
evenly
buttons buttons and view symbol details such as when the
Select objects and align and distribute or item was last modified and the number of
match size and space relative to one instances. Insert, edit or delete symbols in
another, or relative to the Stage. this window.

Add user interaction in movies or Web Property Inspector

forms, create your own components, or
modify existing ones.
Item Help
Info being
Selection Selection displayed
width X position Expander
Selection Selection arrow
height Y position
The Property Inspector displays detailed information and settings about a selected item in the Flash
workspace: the document, shapes, videos, text, symbols, frames, tools, components, or groups. It replaces
Create a new swatch to create your own the Fill, Stroke, Character, Paragraph, Tool Options, Effect, Frame, and Instance panels of earlier versions.
color scheme, or modify an existing To expand or contract the bottom half of the inspector: Click the Expander arrow in
swatch. the Property Inspector.

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