MACROMEDIA STUDIO 8-EXPLORING STUDIO 8 Manual page 62

62 Studio Basics
To display the entire Stage, select View > Magnification > Show Frame
or select Show Frame from the Zoom control at the upper-right corner
of the Timeline.
To display the workspace surrounding the Stage, select View > Work
Area. The work area is shown in light gray. Use the Work Area
command to view elements in a scene that are partly or completely
outside of the Stage area. For example, to have a bird fly into a frame,
you would initially position the bird outside of the Stage in the work
area and then animate it into the Stage area.
Moving the view of the Stage
When the Stage is magnified, you may not be able to see all of it. The
Hand tool lets you move the Stage to change the view without having to
change the magnification.
To move the Stage view:
1. In the Tools panel, select the Hand tool. To temporarily switch between
another tool and the Hand tool, hold down the Spacebar and click the
tool in the Tools panel.
2. Drag the Stage.
Using the Timeline
The Timeline organizes and controls a document's content over time in
layers and frames. Like films, Flash documents divide lengths of time into
frames. Layers are like multiple film strips stacked on top of one another,
each containing a different image that appears on the Stage. The major
components of the Timeline are layers, frames, and the playhead.
Layers in a document are listed in a column on the left side of the
Timeline. Frames contained in each layer appear in a row to the right of
the layer name. The Timeline header at the top of the Timeline indicates
frame numbers. The playhead indicates the current frame displayed on
the Stage. As a Flash document plays, the playhead moves from left to right
through the Timeline.