Using The History Panel - MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004-USING FLASH Use Manual

Using the History panel

The History panel shows a list of the steps you've performed in the active document since you
created or opened that document, up to a specified maximum number of steps. (The History
panel doesn't show steps you've performed in other documents.) The slider in the History panel
initially points to the last step that you performed.
You can use the History panel to undo or redo individual steps or multiple steps at once. You can
apply steps from the History panel to the same object or to a different object in the document.
However, you cannot rearrange the order of steps in the History panel. The History panel is a
record of steps in the order in which they were performed.
Note: If you undo a step or a series of steps and then do something new in the document, you can no
longer redo the steps in the History panel; they disappear from the panel.
To remove deleted items from a document after you undo a step in the History panel, you use the
Save and Compact command. For more information, see
steps" on page 37.
By default, Flash supports 100 levels of undo for the History panel. You can select the number of
undo and redo levels, from 2 to 9999, in Flash Preferences. For more information, see "Setting
preferences in Flash" in Getting Started with Flash.
You can clear the History panel to erase the history list for the current document. After clearing
the history list, you cannot undo the steps that are cleared. Clearing the history list does not undo
steps; it merely removes the record of those steps from the current document's memory.
Closing a document clears its history. If you know you want to use steps from a document after
that document is closed, copy the steps with the Copy Steps command or save the steps as a
command. For more information, see
on page 36 or "Automating tasks with the Commands menu" on page
To open the History panel:
•
Select Window > Other Panels > History.
To erase the history list for the current document:
In the History panel options menu, select Clear History.
1.
Click Yes to confirm the Clear command.
2.
Undoing steps with the History panel
You can undo the last step or multiple steps with the History panel. When you undo a step, the
step is dimmed in the History panel.
To undo the last step performed:
•
Drag the History panel slider up one step in the list.
"Saving documents when you undo
"Copying and pasting steps between documents"
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