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Navigating through multiple timelines

Navigating through multiple timelines

Once you start to build complex applications in Flash, you are going to be working a lot with multiple timelines. When you put an object inside of a symbol it get its own timeline, different from the main timeline or the main Stage. In this movie, we'll look at how to navigate through multiple timelines so that you can always know where you are and what you are editing. So, on the Stage here, I have a group. So, if I select what's on the Stage, you'll see group in the Properties panel. Note that I am in Scene 1 or the main timeline as you see at the top-left of the screen. It says Scene 1. This top-left area is something you want to be checking often to know what you are editing. So, it says Scene 1 now. But if I double-click the group on the Stage, then it will say Group to the right of Scene 1. So, Flash is telling me I am editing a group that's inside of Scene 1. Now, if I select one of the flowers, you will see that I have different symbol instances on the Stage. You can tell that…

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