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Working with the Actions panel

Working with the Actions panel

Before you start writing ActionScript code, you should be familiar with the Actions panel. The ActionScript panel has some tools for you to write code more efficiently. So I'm going to open the Actions panel, remember that's Window > Actions, and if you plan on using a lot of ActionScript, you might want to memorize the keyboard shortcut. So I'm in the Actions panel now. The Actions panel has a few different windows. One for finding code, so I can expand these sections and find bits of code and apply them. But honestly, I actually never use this section, so I'm going to click to minimize that. The other section allows you to navigate through the code in your Timeline. And to be honest, I don't use this section that often unless I just can't find a bit of code. So I'm going to minimize that area as well by clicking on that vertical divider in between these two sections. So now I just have the coding area. The other important thing about the Actions panel is the font that you use and…

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