View The Timeline - MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-FLASH Tutorials Manual

16 Basic Tasks: Create a Document
Undo changes
Flash can undo a series of changes to your document. You'll undo the
artwork that you just created.
1.
To see the undo feature in action, first open the History panel
(Window > Other Panels > History).
The Pencil tool appears in the panel, because using the tool was your
last action.
2.
Do one of the following:
Select Edit > Undo Pencil Tool.
Press Control+Z (Windows) or Command+Z (Macintosh).
Your scribbles disappear from the Stage. The History panel now shows
a dimmed Pencil tool, which indicates the undo action was executed.
Flash, by default, is set to undo 100 of your changes, in reverse order of
execution. You can change the default setting in Preferences. To change
your preferences, see "Setting preferences in Flash" in Getting Started
with Flash.
3.
To close the History panel, click the pop-up menu in the upper-right
corner of the panel and select Close Panel.

View the Timeline

Just above the Stage, you see the Timeline and layers. You can create and
name layers, and then add content to frames on layers to organize how
your Flash content plays as the playhead moves across the frames.
Move the mouse pointer over the area that separates the Stage from the
Timeline. When the resizing handle appears, drag up or down slightly
to resize the Timeline as necessary.
Playhead
Keyframe
Resizing handle