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See also
"Actions panel overview" on page 382
"Script window overview" on page 383
Use the Movie Explorer
The Movie Explorer lets you view and organize the contents of a document and select elements in the document for
modification. It contains a display list of currently used elements, arranged in a navigable hierarchical tree.
Use the Movie Explorer to perform the following actions:
• Filter which categories of items in the document appear in the Movie Explorer.
• Display the selected categories as scenes, symbol definitions, or both.
• Expand and collapse the navigation tree.
• Search for an element in a document by name.
• Familiarize yourself with the structure of a Flash document that another developer created.
• Find all the instances of a particular symbol or action.
• Print the navigable display list that appears in the Movie Explorer.
The Movie Explorer has a Panel menu and a context menu with options for performing operations on selected items
or modifying the Movie Explorer display. A check mark with a triangle below it in the Movie Explorer panel indicates
the Panel menu.
Note: The Movie Explorer has slightly different functionality when you are working with screens.
See also
"Working with screens" on page 366
View the Movie Explorer
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Select Window > Movie Explorer.
Filter the categories of items that appear in the Movie Explorer
• To show text, symbols, ActionScript, imported files, or frames and layers, click one or more of the filtering buttons
to the right of the Show option. To customize which items to show, click the Customize button. Select options in
the Show area of the Movie Explorer Settings dialog box to view those elements.
• To show items in scenes, select Show Movie Elements from the Movie Explorer Panel menu.
• To show information about symbols, select Show Symbol Definitions from the Movie Explorer Panel menu.
Note: The Movie Elements option and the Symbol Definitions option can be active at the same time.
Search for an item using the Find box
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In the Find box, enter the item name, font name, ActionScript string, or frame number. The Find feature searches
all items that appear in the Movie Explorer.
Select an item in the Movie Explorer
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Click the item in the navigation tree. Shift-click to select more than one item.
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