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Chapter 1: Getting Acquainted with Flash CS5
✓ Undock a panel. Drag it by its title bar.
✓ Open or close a panel. Choose it from the Window
menu.
✓ Close an undocked panel. Click its Close button.
✓ Close a docked panel. Right-click (Windows) or
Control-click (Mac) its title bar and choose Close.
✓ Collapse a group of panels to icons. Click the
double right arrow at the top of the group of docked
panels.
You can also stack panels. Drag a panel (by its title bar)
to another panel to stack it below the first one. You can
also collapse or expand panels: A collapsed panel dis-
plays only its title bar, so it doesn’t take up much space.
Just click its title bar. Repeat the process to expand the
panel again.
A set of icon panels, shown in Figure 1-4, provides short-
cuts to often-used panels. You click the button to both
open and close its panel.
The Tools panel contains all the tools you need to
draw and edit objects. At the bottom of the Tools panel
are options that modify how the tools function. (See
Chapters 3 and 4 for a complete description of the Tools
panel.)
The Property inspector, shown in Figure 1-5, is another important panel. This
panel displays information about selected objects, such as size, name, and
location. You can modify objects in the Property inspector as well. It’s con-
text sensitive, which means that its contents change according to what you’re
doing. For example, if you select a graphic object, the Property inspector pro-
vides settings relating to that object, and you can use the Property inspector
to edit that object.
By default, the Property inspector is grouped with the Library (which we
explain in Chapter 2).
The Property inspector has several controls for changing its configuration:
Color
Swatches
Align
Info
Transform
Actions
Figure 1-4: The icon
panels look like toolbar
buttons. Use them to
open and close panels.
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