Change Background And Stage Size; Change Your View Of The Stage - MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004-LEARNING FLASH Manual

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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.
The playhead (the red indicator line) is on Frame 1 in the Timeline. The keyframes are
designated by small circles in the frames, which are filled, indicating there's content in those
frames. You can add a keyframe to a document when you want the Flash content to change in
some way in that frame.

Change background and Stage size

The Stage provides a preview of how your Flash content will appear in your published file. You'll
change the size of the Stage, to accommodate artwork designed for a larger Stage, and you'll
change the background color of the Stage.
In the Tools panel, click the Selection tool.
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On the Stage, click anywhere in the gray work area that surrounds the Stage, or on the
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background area of the Stage, so that no objects are selected.
The Property inspector, below the Stage, displays properties for the document when no objects
are selected.
To change the Stage background color, click the Background color box and select a light shade
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of gray, such as gray with the hexadecimal value of #CCCCCC.
To change the Stage size, click the Size button in the Property inspector. In the Document
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Properties dialog box, enter 750 for the Stage width, then click OK.
The Stage resizes to 750 pixels wide.

Change your view of the Stage

You can change your view of the Stage without affecting the actual Stage size of your document.
In the Stage View text box, above the right side of the Stage, type 500%. Then press Enter
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or Return.
Your view of the Stage enlarges to 500%.
In the Stage View pop-up menu, which you access by clicking the control to the right of the text
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box, select 100% to view the Stage in dimensions that correspond to the size of the published
Flash content.
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Playhead
Keyframe
Resizing handle