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You can search Flash Help for a combination of words and phrases:
Return a list of help pages that contain the specified word. For example, if you type
Single-word searches
in the search text field, Flash returns a list of help pages that contain the word timeline or Timeline.
Return a list of help pages that each contain all of the search terms you enter. In this case,
Multiple-word searches
the word and is implicit in the search. For example, if you type
list of pages that contain both movie and clip—that is, clip movie, movie clip,movie...clip, and so on.
Explicit AND/OR searches
and keyframe or tween
and help pages that contain timeline and tween.
Use quotation marks to return only pages that contain the specific phrase you enter. For
Exact phrase searches
example, if you type
"motion tween"
motion tween, but not pages that contain separate instances of motion and tween.
Exact phrase with explicit AND/OR searches
further refine your searches. For example, if you type
Flash returns a list of pages that contain both the phrase motion tween and the word ActionScript.
Access context-sensitive Help from the Actions panel
To select an item for reference, do any of the following:
1
• Select an item in the Actions panel toolbox pane (on the left side of the Actions panel).
• Select an ActionScript term in the Actions panel in the Script pane.
• Place the insertion point before an ActionScript term in the Actions panel in the Script pane.
2 To open the Help panel reference page for the selected item, do one of the following:
• Press F1.
• Right-click the item and select View Help.
• Click Help
above the Script pane.
Choosing the right Help documents
Flash Help contains many documents. The following list describes each document's purpose and contents:
• Using Flash contains an introduction to what Flash is, what you can do with it, and how the Flash user interface
works. It also contains detailed information about using all of the tools and features in the Flash authoring tool.
• Programming ActionScript 3.0 provides a detailed description of the ActionScript 3.0 language, intended for
beginning and experienced scripters. Programming ActionScript 3.0 explains the basic concepts of writing code,
including how to use logic to write code that makes decisions, how to make your Flash projects respond to user
actions, and how to write code to perform the most common tasks in Flash. ActionScript 3.0 is faster and more
appropriate for computationally intensive applications than ActionScript 2.0, and is somewhat more complex than
ActionScript 2.0.
• The ActionScript 3.0 Language and Components Reference includes dictionary-style entries for all of the actions,
methods, and properties in the ActionScript 3.0 application programming interface (API), as well as the APIs for
the ActionScript 3.0 components included with Flash. This reference is a fast way to find specific ActionScript
terms to accomplish specific tasks. Each entry includes details of the term's syntax and functionality, and code
examples.
Use the words and or or to refine the search results. For example, if you type
in the search text field, Flash returns a list of help pages that contain timeline and keyframe
in the search text field, Flash returns a list of help pages that contain the phrase
Use a combination of quotation marks and the words and or or to
in the search text field, Flash returns a
movie clip
"motion tween" and "ActionScript"
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timeline
timeline
in the search field,