Adobe 65036570 - Director - PC User Manual page 23

Move around on the Stage
If the Stage is not already displayed, select Window > Stage.
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Do one of the following:
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• From the Tool palette, select the Hand tool.
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Press and hold the Spacebar.
Place the hand on the Stage, and click and drag to move the Stage.
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Increasing or decreasing your view of the Stage
You can author in Director on a zoomed Stage—one that is either larger or smaller than the normal size of the movie.
The Stage's title bar indicates the Stage size, expressed as a percentage of the normal Stage size.
When you change the size of the Stage, any guides or grids used to assist with alignment also scale to the zoomed
size, and you can manipulate sprites in the same way that you would on a Stage that is not zoomed.
Zoom in on the Stage
From the Tool palette, select the Magnifying Glass tool.
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Click the Stage until it reaches the desired size.
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Zoom out from the Stage
From the Tool palette, select the Magnifying Glass tool.
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Press and hold the Alt key (Windows) or the Option key (Mac), and then click the Stage until it reaches the
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desired size.
Using the offstage canvas
The Stage includes an offstage canvas area within the Stage window but outside of the active movie area. This canvas
area is useful for assembling your sprites, either before or after they appear on the Stage.
The offstage canvas is also useful as a way to preload content. For example, you can place sprites on the offstage
canvas. There, they are loaded into memory and are ready to play immediately when needed in a subsequent frame
of the movie.
A. Offstage canvas B. Onstage canvas
The offstage canvas and the onstage canvas
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