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To designate a layer as a guide layer:
•
Select the layer and right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) and select Guide from
the context menu. Select Guide again to change the layer back to a normal layer.
About the main toolbar and edit bar
The main toolbar at the top of the workspace displays menus with commands for controlling
Flash functionality. The menus include File, Edit, View, Insert, Modify, Text, Commands,
Control, Window, and Help.
The edit bar, directly below the main toolbar, contains controls and information for editing
scenes and symbols, and for changing the magnification level of the Stage.
For information on changing the Stage magnification level, see
“Zooming” on page 22
.
For information on editing symbols, see
Chapter 3, “Using Symbols, Instances, and Library
Assets,” on page 53
. For information on working with scenes, see “Working with scenes” in
Using
Flash
.
Using the Tools panel
The tools in the Tools panel let you draw, paint, select, and modify artwork, as well as change the
view of the Stage. The Tools panel is divided into four sections:
•
The tools area contains drawing, painting, and selection tools.
•
The view area contains tools for zooming and panning in the application window.
•
The colors area contains modifiers for stroke and fill colors.
•
The options area displays modifiers for the selected tool, which affect the tool’s painting or
editing operations.
Using the Customize Tools panel dialog box, you can specify which tools to display in the Flash
authoring environment. See
“Customizing the Tools panel” on page 34
.
For information on using the drawing and painting tools, see “Flash drawing and painting tools”
in
Using Flash
. For information on using the selection tools, see “Selecting objects” in
Using
Flash
.For information on using the view modification tools, see
“Moving the view of the Stage”
on page 23
.
To show or hide the Tools panel:
•
Select Window > Tools.
Selecting tools
You can select tools by clicking in the Tools panel, or by using a keyboard shortcut.
To select a tool, do one of the following:
•
Click the tool you want to use. Depending on the tool you select, a set of modifiers may be
displayed in the options area at the bottom of the Tools panel.
•
Press the tool’s keyboard shortcut.
•
To select a tool located in the pop-up menu behind a visible tool, press the icon of the visible
tool and select another tool from the pop-up menu.
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