Adobe 38039336 - Flash CS3 Professional User Manual page 392

Apply Block Comment
Adds a single-line comment marker at the insertion point, or at the beginning of each line
Apply Line Comment
of code in a multiline selection.
Removes comment markers from the current line or all lines of the current selection.
Remove Comment
Displays or hides the Actions Toolbox.
Show/Hide Toolbox
(Actions panel only) In Script Assist mode, you are presented with a user-interface for entering the
Script Assist
elements needed to create scripts.
Displays reference information for the ActionScript element that is selected in the Script pane. For
Help
example, if you click an
import
Help panel.
(Actions panel only) Contains the commands and preferences that apply to the Actions panel. For
Panel menu
example, you can set line numbers and word wrapping, access ActionScript preferences, and import or export
scripts.
See also
"Writing and managing scripts" on page 390
"Debugging ActionScript 3.0" on page 411
"Debugging ActionScript 1.0 and 2.0" on page 401
Set ActionScript preferences
Whether you edit code in the Actions panel or the Script window, you can set and modify a single set of preferences.
1 Select Edit > Preferences (Windows) or Flash > Preferences (Macintosh), and then click ActionScript in the
Category list.
Set any of these preferences:
2
When automatic indentation is turned on, the text you type after an opening parenthesis "("
Automatic Indentation
or opening curly brace "{" is automatically indented according to the Tab Size setting.
Specifies the number of characters a new line is indented.
Tab Size
Enables code hinting in the Script pane.
Code Hints
Specifies the delay (in seconds) before code hints are displayed.
Delay
Specifies the font used for your script.
Font
Use Dynamic Font Mapping
substitutes a font family that contains the necessary characters.
Specifies the character encoding used when you open or import ActionScript files.
Open/Import
Specifies the character encoding used when you save or export ActionScript files.
Save/Export
Specifies what happens when a script file is modified, moved, or deleted. Select Always, Never,
Reload Modified Files
or Prompt.
• No warning is displayed, and the file is automatically reloaded.
Always
• No warning is displayed, and the file remains in the current state.
Never
Adds comment markers to the beginning and end of the selected code block.
statement and then click Help, the reference information for
Checks to ensure that the selected font family can render each character. If not, Flash
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appears in the
import
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