Adobe Flash CS4 Professional for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide

Setting Selection Preferences

Chapter 4

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Figure 4.1 Choose General in the Category list of the

Preferences dialog to choose a selection method.

Setting Selection

Preferences

 ere are two basic ways to make a selection

in Flash: one is to click an element directly,

and the other is to enclose all or part of an

element with a selection outline. You can set

preferences to gain more control over these

two methods. For the click method, you

choose whether you must Shift-click to select

multiple items or whether you can merely

click additional items to add to a selection.

For the selection-outline method, you decide

if the outline must fully enclose ...