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Enabling buttons and ActionScript without testing the movie - Flash Professional Tutorial
From the course: Flash Professional: Shortcuts
Enabling buttons and ActionScript without testing the movie
For many files, especially large and complex FLA files, testing a movie in the Flash Player can take a while. If you need to test simple button interactivity, you can do this testing directly from your FLA without even having to launch the Flash Player. For example, on the stage here I have an invisible button. If I double-click the button, you'll see that it just has no Up state, which makes it an invisible button, and when I roll to the Over state you'll see that something appears which is the skateboard, and that's really all there is to it. So let's go back to Scene 1. And then you'll see that as I click on that with a single-click that nothing happens on the Timeline. So to enable this button, I can go to Control > Enable Simple Buttons. Now when I hover over that, I can see what it looks like. So now let's disable that. So go to Control and uncheck Enable Simple Buttons. And now another trick is that if you happen to be using ActionScript 2.0, then you can actually enable simple…
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The Break Apart command3m 35s
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The Distribute To Layers command1m 32s
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Zooming shortcuts2m 13s
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Copying and pasting shortcuts1m 34s
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The Swap and Duplicate Symbol commands1m 50s
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Shortcuts with graphic symbols2m 29s
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Editing multiple frames2m 9s
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Finding and replacing all types of content3m 31s
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Creating custom code snippets2m 26s
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Using frame keyboard shortcuts2m 5s
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The Align panel2m 16s
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Fast masking1m 38s
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Shortcuts for rulers and guides2m 31s
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The essential toolbar shortcuts2m
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Exporting a movie clip or graphic symbol animation5m 39s
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Importing sequences of images2m 42s
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Snap To Guides and Snap To Objects3m 29s
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Enabling buttons and ActionScript without testing the movie2m 18s
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Muting sounds1m 21s
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Using the History panel to create custom shortcuts3m 36s
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