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Testing a Movie in Another Window
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✓ Choose Control➪Play or press Enter or Return to play the movie
in movie editing mode. This action plays the Timeline in its entirety,
unless you use ActionScript to stop the movie on one or more
keyframes.
✓ Choose Control➪Rewind to rewind the movie to the first frame after
playing the movie.
✓ Choose Control➪Go To End to navigate to the last frame in the movie.
✓ Choose Control➪Enable Simple Frame Actions to preview simple frame
actions, such as stop and goto in Flash authoring mode.
✓ Choose Control➪Enable Simple Buttons to test the functionality of
simple buttons when testing a movie in Flash authoring mode.
✓ Choose Control➪Enable Live Preview to preview component animation
and 9-slice scaling when working in Flash authoring mode.
✓ Choose Control➪Mute Sounds to mute Timeline and button sounds
when testing a movie in Flash authoring mode.
Testing a Movie in Another Window
Sometimes it’s important to see the entire movie, such as when you make
radical changes to your ActionScript or extensively modify an animation or
swap several symbols. When you need to preview the entire movie, follow
these steps:
1. Choose Control➪Test Movie.
Flash displays a dialog box telling you that it’s exporting the Flash
movie. After a few seconds, the movie appears in another window (see
Figure 1-1). The movie plays in its entirety and loops continuously.
2. Choose Control➪Rewind.
Flash rewinds the movie to the first frame and stops playing it.
3. Choose Control➪Play.
Flash plays the movie. While the movie plays, make sure that the anima-
tions are smooth and that any ActionScript executes flawlessly. Test
each button to make sure it does what it’s supposed to do.
4. Choose View➪Show Redraw Regions.
Flash displays a red rectangle around all areas that are redrawn, such as
animations.
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