Using The Movie Explorer - MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-USING FLASH Use Manual

Using the Movie Explorer

The Movie Explorer provides an easy way for you to view and organize the contents of a
document and select elements in the document for modification. It contains a display list of
currently used elements, arranged in a navigable hierarchical tree. You can filter which
categories of items in the document appear in the Movie Explorer, selecting from text,
graphics, buttons, movie clips, actions, and imported files. You can display the selected
categories as scenes, symbol definitions, or both. And you can expand and collapse the
navigation tree.
The Movie Explorer offers many features to streamline the workflow for creating documents.
For example, you can use the Movie Explorer to do the following actions:
Search for an element in a document by name.
Familiarize yourself with the structure of a Flash document created by another developer.
Find all the instances of a particular symbol or action.
Print the navigable display list that appears in the Movie Explorer.
The Movie Explorer has an options menu as well as a context menu with options for
performing operations on selected items or modifying the Movie Explorer display. The
options menu is indicated by a check mark with a triangle below it in the title bar of the
Movie Explorer.
The Movie Explorer has slightly different functionality when you are working with
screens. For more information, see
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To view the Movie Explorer:
Select Window > Movie Explorer.
To filter the categories of items appearing in the Movie Explorer, do any of the
following:
To show text, symbols, ActionScript, imported files, or frames and layers, click one or
more of the filtering buttons to the right of the Show option. To customize which items to
show, click the Customize button. Select options in the Show area of the Movie Explorer
Settings dialog box to view those elements.
From the options menu in Movie Explorer, select Show Movie Elements to show items
in scenes.
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