Adobe 65036570 - Director - PC User Manual page 60

Select multiple nonadjacent cast members
• In either List or Thumbnail view, Control-click (Windows) or Command-click (Mac) each cast member that you
want to select.
Copying cast members
You can create multiple versions of a cast member in a single cast. You can also copy cast members from one Cast
window to another.
1 In either List or Thumbnail view, select the cast members that you want to copy.
Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac), and drag the cast member to a new location (Thumbnail view) or
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to the bottom of the list (List view).
You can drag the cast member to a location in the same Cast window or to a different Cast window. Director
creates a cast member with a new number. All of its other information is identical to the original.
If you copied the cast member into the same Cast window, change the name of the copied cast member so that
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you (and scripts) can distinguish it from the original. For more information, see
Moving cast members within the Cast window
When moving a cast member to a new position or a different cast within the Cast window, use Thumbnail view to
see the representation of the cast member's position.
Note: When you move a cast member to a new position, Director assigns it a new number and updates all references to
the cast member in the Score. However, Director doesn't automatically update references to cast member numbers in
Lingo or JavaScript syntax. The best practice is to always name cast members and refer to them by name in scripts that
refer to them.
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Using Thumbnail view, drag the cast member to a new position in any open Cast window.
In Thumbnail view, a highlight bar indicates where the cast member will be placed. If you drag the cast member
over a position that already contains a cast member, Director places your selected cast member in that position
and moves the existing cast member one position to the right.
In List view, the cast member is added to the bottom of the list.
Cut, copy, and paste cast members to a new position or a different cast
1 Select one or more cast members, and then select Cut or Copy from the Edit menu.
Do one of the following:
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In Thumbnail view, select an empty position in any open Cast window, and then select Edit > Paste.
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In List view, deselect all cast members by clicking anywhere in the window except on a cast member name.
Then select Edit > Paste.
Note: In either Thumbnail or List view, if you paste cast members while other cast members are selected, you will
overwrite the selected cast members.
Move a cast member to a position that is not currently visible in Thumbnail view
1 Select the cast member you want to move.
Scroll the Cast window to display the destination position.
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Drag the Drag Cast Member button to the destination position.
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