Increasing Or Decreasing Your View Of The Stage; Using The Offstage Canvas - MACROMEDIA DIRECTOR MX 2004-GETTING STARTED WITH DIRECTOR Getting Started

To move around on the Stage:
If the Stage is not already displayed, select Window > Stage.
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Do one of the following:
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From the Tool palette, select the Hand tool.
Press and hold the Spacebar.
Place the hand on the Stage, and click and drag to move the Stage.
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Increasing or decreasing your view of the Stage

You can author in Director on a zoomed Stage—one that is either larger or smaller than the
normal size of the movie. The Stage's title bar indicates the Stage size expressed as a percentage of
the normal Stage size.
When you change the size of the Stage, any guides or grids that you use to assist you with
alignment also scale to the zoomed size, and you can manipulate sprites in the same way that you
would on a Stage that is not zoomed.
To zoom in on the Stage:
From the Tool palette, select the Magnifying Glass tool.
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Click the Stage until it reaches the desired size.
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To zoom out from the Stage:
From the Tool palette, select the Magnifying Glass tool.
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Press and hold the Alt key (Windows) or the Option key (Macintosh), and then click the Stage
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until it reaches the desired size.

Using the offstage canvas

The Stage includes an offstage canvas area within the Stage window but outside of the active
movie area. This canvas area is useful for assembling your sprites either before or after they appear
on the Stage.
The offstage canvas is also useful as a way to preload content. For example, you can place sprites
on the offstage canvas so that they are loaded into memory and ready to play immediately when
needed in a subsequent frame of the movie.
The offstage canvas and the onstage canvas
Offstage canvas
Onstage canvas
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