User Guide

Creating sprite channel names 57
Finding sprites
You can search for and find sprites by name. When you have many sprites in a movie, searching
for a sprite by name is easier and more efficient than searching by channel name or number.
To find a sprite by name:
1 Select Edit > Find > Find Sprite. The Find Sprite dialog box opens with a list of the named
sprites in the current cast.
Note: Only the sprites that you have already named appear in the list.
2 In the Name text box, type the name of the sprite that you want to find.
You can type just the first letters to limit the list to sprites that start with those letters.
3 Select Name if you want the sprites sorted by name; select Number if you want the sprites sorted
by Channel number.
4 Select the sprite that you want to find and click Select. The score opens at the location of the
selected sprite.
Creating sprite channel names
Rather than just referring to channels by number, you can also name sprite channels. When
authoring sprites in Lingo or JavaScript syntax, you often must work in a particular channel or
manage several different channels. Naming a sprite channel can expedite your work when
authoring and managing many composite layers.