May 2010
Intermediate to advanced
778 pages
23h 58m
English
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Control
Control menu commands provide playback controls to test your animation in the program window, the Flash Player, and HTML pages.
Play
Windows: Enter
Mac: Return
Plays the timeline in the Flash window, showing the contents of each frame on the stage.
Rewind
Windows: Shift+comma (,)
Mac: Shift-comma (,)
Moves the playhead in the timeline back to the first frame.
Go To End
Windows: Shift+period (.)
Mac: Shift-period (.)
Moves the playhead in the timeline to the last frame.
Step Forward One Frame
Windows: period (.)
Mac: period (.)
Moves the playhead in the timeline ahead one frame.
Step Backward One Frame
Windows: comma (,)
Mac: comma (,)
Moves the playhead in the timeline back one frame.
Test Movie
Windows: Ctrl+Enter
Mac: ⌘-Return
The Text Movie option leads to a submenu, where you can choose to test your movie in Flash Professional, Device Central, AIR Debug Launcher (Desktop), or AIR Debug Launcher (Mobile). These options may look similar, but in each case they use the designated runtime environment. Once you've selected the environment for testing your movie, a checkmark appears next to its name. Then you can use the Ctrl+Enter (⌘-Return) command to test it. Flash compiles the animation and then runs it. If your movie has more than one scene, this command plays all the scenes in order.
Test Scene
Windows: Ctrl+Alt+Enter
Mac: Option-⌘-Return
Compiles and tests the scene in the timeline. If you want to test and view all the scenes in your movie, use Test Movie (above).
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