Chapter 8: Working With Graphic Objects - MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-USING FLASH Use Manual

CHAPTER 8
Working with Graphic
Objects
In Macromedia Flash Basic 8 and Macromedia Flash Professional 8, graphic objects are items
on the Stage. Flash lets you move, copy, delete, transform, stack, align, and group graphic
objects. You can also link a graphic object to a URL.
Keep in mind that modifying lines and shapes can alter other lines and shapes on the same
layer (see Chapter 5, "Drawing," on page
Graphic objects in Flash are different from ActionScript objects, which are part of the
ActionScript programming language. Be careful not to confuse the two uses of the term
objects. For more information on objects in the programming language, see "About data
types" in Learning ActionScript 2.0 in Flash.
This chapter contains the following sections:
Selecting objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Grouping objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .211
Moving, copying, and deleting objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Stacking objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Transforming objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Flipping objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Restoring transformed objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Aligning objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Breaking apart groups and objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .222
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